He's the man on flipping houses

It’s next door to her mother’s house.

You'll get the most favorable financing terms and offset your housing expense while paying principle.

Joshua,My wife and I have 3 STR's.  1 in Missouri and 2 in Florida(1 is a condo and one is a house).  

We put both houses in the MLS and have had to reduce the price by more than 14% and still no offers. 

It's tough to recommend without sitting down and talking to you to determine what your goals are.What I would suggest is just buying an occupied or vacant house that doesn't need reno or minor reno, then either have a realtor rent it out for you and you take over day to day management, or you can put PM in place. 

During the Depression and up until after the War they lived 3 families in a single house until they had each saved enough to buy their own house.

Another thing, if your cleaners bring their own vacuums, they could be transferring them from house to house. 

My intention is to house hack and eventually STR the property. 

nothing pointed at you personally but there has been build to rent projects were investors had to put up 50k non refundable and never got their house built.. so I can see putting it in escrow and releasing it upon closing for sure.. thats what i personally do with my new builds although since we average 25 to 75k of upgrades per house buyers have to stroke non refundable checks directly to us for those items.