I live and work in the Atlanta, GA area.

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I live in the greater Nashville area.

A PMC is like insurance - how long would you choose for your family to live without medical insurance?

I'm hoping to do an FHA 203(k) within the first half of this year and eventually rent it out after living in it for about 2 years.

Where you live in relation to the investment property shouldn't matter.

What is the quickest and most feasible way to transition from living there to setting up this house for passive income: leaving a property manager or somebody to take care of it!

Hopefully you already worked this out.Aside from HML, there's also an option to do a live-in-flip, where you live in the house for a year and renovate it slowly.

There are exceptions, like what was mentioned by @Nathan Gesner, if you are an employee of the property owners, and you exclusively manage their properties, if you're a resident manager, living in the building that is being managed, or if you are someone who manages properties owned by a single entity and have a direct ownership interest in it.

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