Is it strictly low inventory?

They also said they try to hide the work going on as much as possible and avoid permits when they can as the city is strict on who can perform the work, as they have to be licensed and insured. 

I routinely underestimated the work because I always told myself "if it ends up more expensive, I'll just do it myself to save some money."

However, if I don't manage to do that routine certain days, I also don't beat myself up.

You have to have a brokers license to be a PM and follow some fairly strict guidelines. 

Another thing to consider is occupancy limits (Boulder has some pretty strict rules on this but they're talking about changing those right now). 

Nearly Half Of Americans Consider Selling Home As COVID Crushes Finances  Tyler Durden Sat, 06/20/2020 - 22:00As the virus pandemic has metastasized into an economic downturn, tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs and are struggling to service mortgage payments.New research offers a glimpse into struggling households, discovers out of the 2,000 American homeowners polled, over half (52%) of respondents say they're routinely worried about making future mortgage payments and nearly half (47%) considered selling their home because of the inability to service mortgage payments.

I think home-ownership is looking pretty easy right now with the rates so low and qualifying standards don’t seem to be overly strict.

I checked out 203K loans also but they too require me to be owner/occupier....If you have done this before, how strict are the underwriters in seeing that you will be a owner/occupier?

It also would set up infrastructure if the economic situation deteriorates in the future due to strict social distancing requirements or even a possible lockdown.