I sold my company two years ago and I'm looking for investment opportunities in the real estate space, specifically single-family houses.

**For context I house hacked for about a year after she passed away but couldn't live in that house anymore and sold it.

If you decide to keep your house, you can do an IRRRL after you have made at least 7 payments on your new mortgage.

@Ryan Duphorn  a  5 /2  and 1920 square feet IMHO isn't a good health care traveler accommodation unless you are in a area with a shortage of housing. 

The same may apply for putting the house into a trust.

If I put all of my eggs in one basket (Florida in this case), paid off property and a hurricane blows everything away, FEMA is nowhere to be found and the insurance companies take years to pay what little claims they actually do pay, I suffer through it in a blown out house.

Is this in your wheel house?

Quote from @Duane Williams: We’re a family-owned fix-and-flip company operating in San Antonio, TX, and Northern Virginia, managing everything in-house—from wholesale acquisitions to rehab & construction (with our own project managers and crews) to listing & selling through our licensed brokerage.

I have found that Redfin actually has pretty good search parameters to where you can look for listings that have been sitting a while that fit your buy box, and you can even do keyword searches for things like "as is", "investor", "seller financing", "guest house", etc. depending on what you are looking for.

You can still buy houses in small farm towns in MN for $25k.