The city wants to tear the property and surrounding properties down Zillow said it’s worth 38000The city offer me 13000.I could use some adviceHard to give advice with limited information, but as a general rule, the longer you wait and the further down the line their project is the more valuable your property will be to them.Zillow (and all automatic online) estimates are very unreliable, so don't base on that.

Have any of you ever successfully assumed a VA loan on an investment property?

House hacking is often promoted as the easiest way to get into real estate—buy a property, rent out part of it, and let tenants cover your mortgage.

The property is worth exactly what it is with zero STR rental income.

@Stacy A Stewart I have personally used DSCR loans to purchase rental properties here in the Dallas/Ft.

By purchasing a multi-unit property, living in one unit, and renting out the others, you can cover your mortgage payments and start building equity while gaining rental income.

My business could then pay the utilities, property taxes, mortgage interest, insurance policy, and home repairs. 

Quote from @David Young: My wife and I are new to this and are saving for our first property our goal is to start looking for properties in November 25, we have a couple questions, would it be wise to invest out of state for our first time investment (we do plan on physically going to see the properties to potentially invest in) ? 

The best way to attract quality tenants is to buy quality properties.

I look at the ARV when we purchased the property and track/monitor that each quarter.