Use the information you gain to narrow your focus for what is working for your market.Most importantly, if something is working well for the folks you see here or on the podcast, but it doesn't work for you, don't despair.

You can even share your link to the property or market you're considering and let folks weigh in in real time.

Lots of folks did and are in this pickle.

That mental switch allowed us to find a great 2-family house-hack opportunity in Bayonne, NJ, and also led me to an amazing career change -- I've been a full-time NJ Realtor for 2.5 years now and have helped many BiggerPockets folks find their first house-hacks -- a good % coming from NYC.  

Here in Colorado Springs and Denver they are called "habitat for humanity" and they get huge slabs from folks renovating.

There is something to walking into a room where 95% of the folks in that room are interested in MF syndications (5% are lost, in the wrong room).  

Hang out in these forums and absorb all you can while realizing you are in an area that a lot of folks don't fully understand. 

I just wanted to point out the income on these is based on premium rents PER BED ROOM not per property.. you at least I am thinking you are like the folks that buy homes from me for student rentals.. are pricing by room.. which gives you the large premium.. 

Note that these folks are super hard on properties though.

And after speaking with a lot of folks at BPCON2024 I’m realizing this is a niche that some of you in the community are very good at, but most of you, like me, know this is a need but don’t have a good solution.