Some strategies to lessen the negative cash flow are: house hack and rent out the other unit as a mid-term rental (to traveling professionals or for people temporarily displaced because of insurance reasons like fire) or short-term rental (business or vacation).

With the decline in traveling medical professional pay since the end of the COVID era, corporate clients represent the highest-paying clients we serve. 

Got for pretty cheap and cashflows with no problems.

You'll typically find that travel nurses want a 13 week term as that is the most common length of their contracts.

Modern, nice, and it's NOT cheap. 

So, what will be your cost to travel to defend yourself in court?

Also, the water could have entered from other areas and traveled along a beam and exited the kitchen ceiling.

The main property will be my primary residence.My biggest question is, what kind of foundation would you use, (that is to code and will pass inspection/permits in Charlottesville) that is either relatively easy DIY or cheap to outsource.

I'm just gradually deleveraging, this next time by likely buying all in cash, and continuing to not lever my properties until cap rates are lower than interest rates... unless I can get cheap and low leverage debt through assumption.

5K rent seems cheap for the area so I would continue with that.