Can you buy a house and be within reason of what your current rent? 

The house includes high-end upgrades such as custom cabinetry, granite countertops and energy efficient appliances.

The vast majority of your wealth gain in real estate will be by holding properties long term and the appreciation/principal paydown will slowly but surely help you become wealthy.For 90% plus of people out there who are looking to start, house hacking is the best way to go.

As there are Californians still moving here, the vast majority are instead picking the states with low or no state income tax like Texas, Florida, or Tennessee.Although we still have a positive influx of people moving here, more people have been leaving due to rising housing costs in recent years.To put it in perspective, we saw around +45k in the 2010's.Overall, CO is basically a balanced net migration in recent years which is likely to keep home prices steady....

You can pick up houses cheap in the area but there is not a lot of appreciation.

I would be willing to share mine as well including the sheet I built to calculate where your offer needs to be on a house hack for it to make sense.

I've been tracing wholesalers in califonia for months, like nothing other state finding individual wholasalers in califonia is quite challenging I don't know if it's because the house prices are too high compared to other markets.

Lake house, cabin feel, waterfront etc.

They had previously been combined into one house.

De Sota is in Jonson County KS which is the hotest housing market in the metro.