Great tools out there to evaluate the density of rentals, houses sold/for sale like Zillow and Redfin can give you a great perspective on these and help guide your decisions!

One of the units is currently rented, so it would probably be great for a house hack.

A couple strategies that could make sense for a younger person without experience could be a live-in flip or a house hack.

On the other hand, many landlords were able to obtain low mortgage rates during the historically low interest rate environment during the Pandemic, allowing them to offer a much more attractive housing cost to renters.

This implies if you sold and bought the exact same house your current property tax would increase substantially.  

Selling a house with furnishings doesn't really add value and many buyers won't want the furniture.

We had a tenant HUD approved Section 8 where we had 12 people ina 4 bedroom house. 

Joined bigger pocket to achieve my dream of owning a dream house in (already crazy) Hawaii market haha.

I moved from Chicago to Nashville, and decided to rent out my house in Chicago.

We've been going to duplex open houses in Cleveland & Akron and a few showings with our agent who has more experience in the Akron area, to learn about neighborhoods, price, quality, etc.