I have had 8 at my 3 bed/ 2 bath houses, largely because of the bathrooms. 

Live under your means and start thinking about investing in Real Estate.In your position the thought of finding a duplex to house hack, live in one side and rent the other. 

ALE solutions, united corporate housing and alacrity are large companies in the insurance relocation space, and it is useful to go to their site and let them know you exist.

They specialized in concrete tilt up, but did a lot of time and materials work for a self made real estate tycoon who owned a lot of Federal Way.Along the way I got my CPA license and practiced in several differing sectors including doing some work with low income housing projects.As far as my start in RE, it was with buying my first personal SFR and later moving to a new residence. 

To all of those providing rental housing in the Cedar Rapids market, I'm curious to hear from YOU!

As there are Californians still moving here, the vast majority are instead picking the states with low or no state income tax like Texas, Florida, or Tennessee.Although we still have a positive influx of people moving here, more people have been leaving due to rising housing costs in recent years.To put it in perspective, we saw around +45k in the 2010's.Overall, CO is basically a balanced net migration in recent years which is likely to keep home prices steady....

Most of my houses earn around 30-40% total return year after year.  

I would be willing to share mine as well including the sheet I built to calculate where your offer needs to be on a house hack for it to make sense.

The tenant left with a not so clean house. 

This sounds like a house hack???