Also make sure you can rent out the vacant rooms if you need to for the ultimate house hack!

Start with BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginners Guide (free).

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https://www.biggerpockets.com/guides/ultimate-real-estate-investing-guide/introductionOutside of reading, even if you're a few years away from buying the greatest learning comes directly from your market.

Ultimately, this may work best because it will give you the freedom to rehab the property. 

I see many self-managing Landlords that are losing money every month by renting way below market, and the only reason they survive is they get lucky with a good tenant that stays for 10-15 years.

It will take a year or so to build up enough clientele to survive.

The prices on the couple of streets that students are interested in living in are extremely inflated compared to the rest of south bethlehem, and ultimately sellers were afraid the appraisal wouldn't come in at the price we agreed upon. 

Ultimately I think the best way to gauge the price is to list it and see!!

My fear is that if i do sell and have that money, i wouldnt be able to find anything that would cash flow as well and ultimately be throwing away a great investment because i got blinded by the big $$ signs.