There's a few different ways to focus on a lower rate such as with house hacking and making the investment your primary residence, requesting a significant closing credit from the sellers for standard rate buy-downs (which I've had great success with recently), or utilizing lenders who offer short term rate lowering solutions such as 2-1 rate buy downs (again, ideally paid for by the sellers).

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Hi Amy - Congrats on your success so far, espeically since you and you husband and just getting into REI.

Real estate success is driven by demand, it sounds like you will have more tenant options and higher prices in Ft.

Successful year coming up for everyone I am hoping.We don't have fireworks where I am, there is just a lot of gunfire.

Are there any markets outside Boston that any of you have had success with a house hack or tips to succeed in this type of market?

It seems like there are additional obstacles to success for me since I'll have to do pretty much everything remotely, but an expression that I like, and I'm paraphrasing here, "If the path you're on seems easy, you're on the wrong path"Would love any and all advice, guidance, comments, warnings or whatever else you'd like to share.

I look forward to seeing your posts and wish you success in your investing journey

I work with these two:Metro Detroit Property Management - Mark HutterNHL Property management - Howard GenserThere are a tonne of companies and each one has had good and bad experiences, so no one in particular stands out.One part of the equation is that the Detroit market itself is a tough place and is not for the novice investors.Only seasoned and large volume Investors make it successful in Detroit.

-To your success, the Rent To Retirement team!