I have a few ideas and look forward to bouncing them off of all of you. 

Luckily the market bounced back but if a large repair or capital expense occurred while the market was still recovering, you would have lost money on your stock investment and missed on the potential growth over the past year.

At a minimum we can bounce some ideas off each other.

We called and talked to the town, but we got bounced around to 3 different people, and none of them really had any clue and we got different answers from each of them (it is a very small town).The last person we talked to essentially said "you're really going to be treating it as a business, so you don't need to change the zoning".

Maybe we can bounce some ideas off eachother.

Please feel free to keep in touch to bounce ideas off each other as we look for a house hack.Nick: That's interesting to hear.

Again, he may not have before/after tales.Email lists can be expensive with a terrible ROI, coming from market research & seeing response rates, bounce rates.

Also network with other more experienced investors that you can bounce ideas off of.

Detroit is bouncing backand i did over 250 fundings there in the day and 248 of them worked.. so we still made bank as a A and D funder.. but those \last two were nightmares.. 

From there, I went ahead and contacted real estate agents and mortgage brokers to bounce numbers off of them and get a feel for how accurate my estimations were.