If you ever have any questions on the different areas around don't hesitate to reach out, I learned a lot from asking other students/friends/co workers and real estate agents that grew up in Nova Scotia and really understood the demographics.Good luck on your house hacking journey, it will certainly pay off for you and your family!

and the cap rate was at at 12% if I understood that correctly. 

Understood @Azan Finch.  

I understood attending REI meetups for local networking, but I completely overlooked contacting the organizer as a remote resource.

If the costs aren't understood, inline and intended ROI can't be hit - it's a bad deal from the word GO.

If it weren't so far from my family or if we were still in the tech industry, we'd still be there (we love it there and still have lots of friends and business colleagues there)...To your point above, remember, when I said I don't believe in speculating on appreciation, I never said it was the wrong thing to do -- I just said it's not right for me, and if all investors really understood the math, I think a lot of them (though absolutely not all of them) would agree. 

I hope I understood what you are asking.

I also built my own tool (basically reverse engineered Gallinelli's in order to make sure I understood exactly what it was doing behind the scenes).

What should also be understood is that money is time. 

Equity capture, Principal paydown, Appreciation, and rental income.Us folks in the midwest tend to forget how appreciation works in some of those hot zones like that one appears to be in.I have always understood it to be that the biggest regret any investor has is selling any property.But before you just take some 2% rule and use it or even 1% rule to determine whether to keep the property or not, I would look to see what both scenarios would look like - in the short term and the long term - and then make your decision.Here is what you have if you do nothing:350k in equity. 1100/mo in net profit (13k/yr).