But today, my husband and I live comfortably, and we’ve traveled to 20 countries over the past few years.I’ve been listening to BiggerPockets since 2013 and was even featured on the Rookie podcast.

Focus on absentee owners and start with the ones who live the farthest away and only own one property in the area since they have the least use for the property.You can also drive for dollars, looking for anomalies of disrepair and then look them up in the tax records and use a site like Spokeo to do cheap skip tracing.

Quote from @Brandon Croucier: A DSCR Loan requires the property to be in LIVABLE CONDITION.Does it mean YOU would live in it?

There are exceptions, like what was mentioned by @Nathan Gesner, if you are an employee of the property owners, and you exclusively manage their properties, if you're a resident manager, living in the building that is being managed, or if you are someone who manages properties owned by a single entity and have a direct ownership interest in it.

I grew up in Berea and lived there for 25 years. 

But if it’s in the main living area and the space is already tight, then getting rid of it could help you maximize the layout.

I live in FL, 2024 my first year in RE, I have a scorp private money lender/partner and other RE related businesses STR and interior design.

Even if the rental has a decent cash flow with additional flood insurance, we're still not sure we want to take on that risk as we are out-of-state investors (planning to move back to KY in the future, but not now) and we don't like that it will potentially bring down the perceived value when we try to sell it in the future.The seller has never lived there and has not provided any information on if it has flooded before or not. 

I lived in Cleveland for multiple months and have some great connections to help you get started investing in Cleveland.

The first year was challenging meaning had a tenant but not saving, it was just making my living expenses cheaper.