@Kole Moore It's a great place to househack but it's getting increasingly difficult to buy pure investment properties unless you're putting a large down payment like @Stephen Stokes mentioned or doing a large rehab on a place you got a great deal on.

I joined a team at  my brokerage starting out which I highly suggest, purely because you aren't alone for questions and liability.

My personal opinion is that the pure hatred of landlords here, of any kind, make it less than desirable to me.There are plenty of folks making it work and there are plenty of folks owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in back rent they will never see.

Tesla something...battery factory, Space X, Elon's new AirBnB project?

I guess the basis of my question really comes down to "what is a better financial return", however looking purely at numbers sometimes is also misleading and other economic factors come into play (like risk tolerance, etc.). 

What I usually recommend is that if people are buying a pure rental (not a house hack), they buy close to where they live (within 15-20 minutes drive).

So I'm not even sure its purely an altruistic move.

He says “Solar + Powerwall battery ensures that your home never loses power.”

If I were a large capital group I would get the full battery of all those inspections done, make a generous offer contingent upon those results, and then if bad results come back make the offer incrementally less generous.

All I want for now is security lights (whether or not they are timed or motion-sensor driven).Here's my understanding of the pros and cons of either:WIRED LIGHTS:lasts a long time (solid state)reliableexpensive (due to electric bill and electrician costs)consistentSOLAR LIGHTS:Cheap (low cost to purchase and free electricity + no electrician needed)batteries may not last long?