I did 7 deals last year from out of state living in Austin Texas.

Should I be budgeting significantly more sense people are in and out of the property versus them living in a long time? 

That was short lived!

I have lived in Santa Fe for 5 years and am plugged into the commercial RE market as a full-time investor. 

If you’re just starting or want to minimize risk, house hacking is a killer move—grab a duplex, live in one unit, rent the other, and let it pay down your mortgage while you scale up.

I'm planning on buying a small multifamily first and foremost so I have a place to live and then will either buy a single family or another multi family depending on what I can find/fits my criteria at the time.

Hello, my name is Rachel, I live in Pennsylvania.

I'm quite not 100% on wether or not if I purchase my first investment property where I currently live (Virginia) (*which I will be*). should I also gain my license here since I'll have a property within Virginia.

Quote from @Devin Slone: I live in Huntington and was looking for local meetups to go to and I just stumbled upon this post!

The only exception is for on-site managers, like you'd find living in one unit of an apartment building and managing the building on behalf of the owner.