Although it's not a strict rule, this can serve as a useful guide.A frequent goal for house hacking is to have the rental revenue from the extra units completely cover your mortgage payment.

I travel very frequently between York PA and Philadelphia. 

I used to post in FB traveling nurse groups but found that the thrifty shoppers frequented there.

I work with a lot of investors who own properties in Austin and their battling the same thing you are right now so they've shifted to areas like SAN, DFW, Memphis, Little Rock, OKC and Tulsa for a variety of reasons but the top are price points are lower and rents are stronger.

There are a variety of different forum categories to help you narrow in on what interests you.

Every system you try will have flaws, or you may salivate over a feature that appears in other software.Some familiar names are mentioned frequently: Stessa, Apartments.com, RentRedi, TenantCloud, Innago, RentManager, Avail, Rentec Direct, Doorloop, etc.I recommend conducting thorough research on each app online to understand their offerings, pricing, etc.

Our house has not appreciated much since October 2022, and homes are moving very slowly in our area with frequent price cuts.

From the 434,294 property records of my last (kinda old) snapshot, using a variety of property-centric heuristics I can generally find what I want to target, defining my TAM (Total Available Market) for my type of investing*.

But since we close a lot of hard money/private money deals we do see this firm involved frequently.

Concerts, professional sports, popular bachelor/bachelorette destination - all reasons to spend extra money on a unique experience with Airbnb :) Other major events happening more frequently in Nashville nowadays - Presidential debate, IndyCar race August 2021, Largest turnout for NFL draft in history in 2019.