There are many different avenues of investment you may choose.

Don't let your strategy pick your life-choose your life and pick the strategy that will create that.All the best!

Most people who are new to renovating make their biggest and most expensive mistakes in choosing the wrong people to do the work and not knowing how to supervise them properly, and being ignorant on how to manage a budget.  

If you are going to manage the properties yourself and you value your time, you may choose to buy in an area that's closer rather than across town. 

Good luck and congrats on choosing to house hack!

Now I need to choose a color!

You can't choose who you fall in love with!

Most of what I have read about the minimum standards, aside from helping you choose tenants who have a high likelihood of treating your property well, is that having minimum standards is a way to protect yourself from lawsuit.

You can choose to charge them a percentage of it, depending on the extent or amount of damage.

Then line "you can have a little or nothing, you choose" works well for us.