@Mike HoherchakFor house hacking, the loan products often force you to go without an LLC since getting traditional financing can become a challenge.

People ignore ads because they are forced on you.

The fact that we would only have to put down ~3.5% if we owner-occupy with an FHA loan is very tempting, however it does significantly expose us to the mercy of the house market and forces us to pay PMI.

and in Oregon our non english speaking hispanic labor force at Home Depot has unionized and they all ask for 15 to 20 an hour  Inflation.. as  a side note we deal with this in new construction when they buyer wants to change a light fixture they saw at HD for 50 bucks.. and you have to charge them 300 to change it they go nuts and cant understand why..

   #5   Control - Forced Cash flow!

(assuming the tenants were not forced out) I'm guessing based upon NYC, if its rent controlled your chances of finding a vacant building is slim.  

My wife and I are active duty Air Force and we are being reassigned to Eglin AFB in May 2019. 

If you buy right and force equity, you can roll that equity from property to property and leave little to no money in each deal.

There are certainly other autonomous driving and machine / deep learning based companies all over Pittsburgh so I think it will still be a force in the city in the future. 

@Jonathan Liu The incentive to sign a year lease is to fix the monthly rental rate...without a lease you can raise the rent once the peak rental season arrives...which you can do to force her to make a decision.