Find the age of every main component.

@Kristine Lambert  I would find this odd if the son is older but if he is college age just could be just a difference in the definition of living with her. 

Equity and retirement assets wont do anything for DTI unless youre retirement age, have a plan in place to create income via IRA distributions, and have a sufficient balance for the distributions to continue for at least three years. 

It can come at the very end so that you're not wasting your time (and theirs), but the kind of long term damage that a bad tenant will cause to a property is not something that they can quickly and easily hide so you want to get eyes on how they are currently living.The age of the house has nothing to do with section 8.

If i decide yes, how can i lock myself down in addition to security systems, cameras, legal self defense, and anti-theft door/window stoppers?

City of Hagerstown is pretty anti-landlord, so many only invest outside the city limits there.

Money always flows where it can buy the most value, but even in the age of remote work, migration trends take time years if not a decade to unfold.Inflation is the devaluation of currency.

One thing to think about is the age of the home.

.: So this thread is a bit aged now but I thought I'd chime in.The author of the thread was looking for land wholesaling.

Remove the draconian anti-landlord legislation and I think you could see a return of many landlords and SFR's in particular.  11000 landlords quit Seattle in 2022, this is the number that has not renewed their rental registration.