If you're unsure when you'll be moving, a ski-lease or mid-term lease might be an option.Truckee (City) has regulations on short-term rentals and a waiting list for permits.

You buy the property, you give the tenant notice of a pending increase, they pack up and leave, then you spruce it up and rent it at market rate so it's a profitable investment.When egg prices double, do you think the local grocer cries in his coffee every morning about how inflation is impacting his customers?

You can buy a single family home, live in it for a year, then rent it out afterwards, and that would effectively be an investment property after you moved out, but you also got the more beneficial terms of it being a primary residence loan.You could buy a single family home and rent out bedrooms while you are living there, and that would effectively be an investment property, but again, you have the more beneficial terms of a primary residence loan.I wouldn't get caught up so much on if a property you buy is an investment immediately so much as I would focus on what your goals are and how each purchase would be step towards your goals, whether that is house hacking or just buying investment properties you don't live in. 

@Brian KemplerI haven't had a lender reject a lease due to this specifically, but the tenant purchase option would be an exit option. 

Always happy to chat more about it.Feel like grabbing a virtual coffee sometime?

If he was building it today, the parking would likely not be an issue.  

And you can start small, buy an old camper, cut a big window, spray paint it black and brown, add some wood trim and sell coffee outside events.

You need to learn to be an expert in some source of stress at finding, filtering for (a data source tool like propstream.com) or buying from a data vender who is good. 

If we were to do this, they would net $300, and us $900 for the month since we closed on the 6th, meaning it would be an equal split.

Would be an extra step to bill you fees otherwise.