It took me a decade and a lot more cash that $200K to get to $100K per year profit. 

Depending on where you are, do this half a dozen times and you could have $500k-$1mil tax free in a decade or so. 

Medical/physician programs are typically best for primary or investment purchases..check in with @Joseph Chiofalo he is a national lender and refinance savant that's worked closely with me for over two decades.

Having supported several investor acquisitions of small balance multi family recently and originating mortgages for the better part of two decades here are some quick pointers and considerations for investors: - Residential loans are considered multi family properties of 1-4 units.

Look up real estate value charts over the last 50 years and see how many crashes you find.Most first time home buyers have rented for a decade or more, that's usually 100-200k that's just gone.

That's doing things the right way, so we don't have to do anything for decades.4.)

That started to come into vogue decades later and after that I think new basements started to be made dry with an eye towards future finishing and use.

You know it’s funny back when I was flipping in dc pre covid, I was always amazed at the prices and in the back of my head was like I cannot believe people are paying 800-1 million to be in a tiny rowhome in a frankly pretty rough area, now of course everyone who didn’t grow up here throught it was just was the way it was, but growing up here I tried to explain to everyone just how bizzare it was that the city was so much more than then the burbs, (from 06 on there were entire areas that went up fourfold, where as the burbs were kind of flat for a decade) I won’t say I saw dc’s crash coming but it seemed so unnatural to me having grown up in the area, I also don’t think we’ve seen close to the bottom as far as urban real estate, as you said you can still trade a house in the city for one in the burbs but really given how urban living is + remote works, cities should be significantly less than an equivalent burb.

But that could take decades and not really what it sounds like you’re interested in.Foley is starting to grow quickly right now.

(Turning it in to a rental makes those gains taxable and will probably take a decade just to break even on taxes.)2) This is the ideal rental you would buy if you had the cash in hand instead of this home?