These strategies reduce living expenses, offer easier financing options, and are ideal for college towns, urban centers, or large employers.

Three beers and six hours of folding can not be my life if I want to get to my ideal volume which would be around 1-2k per month once I'm able to afford the list and the postage. 

Ideally, it would not need something like Zapier to connect tools, as that adds to the costs and can be clunky. 

This option may not be ideal if cash flow would be so very small, or difficult to find cash flow property due to high interest, because if there it isn’t cash flow property loan won’t be approved. 

Ideally completing light renovations like this shouldn't take long and you should  have a low holding cost on the hard money loan (if you used debt) and make a higher profit on the sale or have more flexibility on the payoff when you refinance  Plan on long-term and hold.

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What is the most pain free (and, ideally, tax-free) way to accomplish this?

My suggestion is to look for someone with a strong track record in investment properties, ideally someone who has successful investments themselves.

It is an ideal location (close to downtown, med center, U of H) and there are many upgrades throughout the home.

Ideally there'd be second factor requirements on any transfer, and especially "suspicious" ones (as defined by an entire team of people who monitor that sort of thing).Cookie theft and other takeover scenarios are a thing.