@Kelly McCandless - I may be a bit biased, but I strongly recommend you House Hack in Seattle (if that's an option for you). $70k is a good chunk of money and I do believe you do not need to spend ALL of that to get into a house hack. 

Louis, of course I'm a bit biased about my city versus others in the Midwest so I'll leave it there.

We are all biased and have blind spots .  3. 203 k or homestyle will be good .

I completely realize that you can search on the forums and such and look up what people are saying, but I have noticed a trend in my searches that indicate an extreme bias against being a Guru.

UNC, Duke, and NCSU produce a lot of solid tech talent (I'm biased as a recent UNC CS grad).

Hi @Andre Bias, we typically want to see that you have enough in liquid capital (stocks, bonds, cash in the bank) to cover the down payment, closing costs, rehab funds, and 6 month's worth of interest payments.Origination fees are typically going to be 1-1.5% of the loan amount and general processing fees will be $1500 per loan. 

Full disclosure, I am also in the Turnkey business (President of Spartan Invest), so of course I am biased toward the niche.

A home inspection, foundation/ sewer inspection, things that are hidden and expensive would be more my concern than a bias appraiser telling me what it is worth on the MLS, they are all over the board and hardly reliable in the first place. 

I personally would recommend mogul.ooo, but then again, I might be a little biased.

I am a residential agent and investor, so I am slightly biased in my opinion.