Thank you Eric.In addition to the rental properties, my wife and I have a paid off house, paid off car, and about $1.4m in retirement accounts, brokerages, and savings.We live in a HCOL area and our expenses are $9.5k per month even though we live pretty modestly.I set out initially to have real estate pay for at least some of my expenses in order to give me more freedom and financial security.Is your wife quitting too? 

Keep it simple, paint and carpet, buy a good house in a quality area.

Our team buys the properties and converts them and manages them so it has been a great learning experience seeing all three phases from taking down a project, renovating the building then managing the lease up.

you would need more income if you want to house hack. would love to help, i house hacked a few times before

It also adds complexity to management.

It's only worth whatnit will appraise for for the value of the houses and land.

The market I’m interested in are residential rental and leasing, senior housing, and distressed properties/owners. 

I would also add, a contractor that you can buy materials for and they know how to put them in with little to know direction (reduces the management time of the project).

that we’ve learned in our 24 years, managing almost 700 doors across the Metro Detroit area, including almost 100 S8 leases.

So advice to get the house against him and he will move out on his own is HIGHLY unlikely.