Townhomes are a viable option, as sing family houses in the best areas can easily get in the mid 400s and up real quick.I focus on North Raleigh, Brier Creek, Bethesda (durham county) to name a few spots.

It's an older home, and it's currently set up as a rental, which I think is part of the reason it's not selling.

It is an older home, and would be hard to move walls around to make space without basically taking the whole house apart.

Pick the one that works best with your skills sets, habits and personality.

On A first house hack, owner occupied, do you have to change the address on your driver licence living there for a year?

I am currently setting up and planning on scaling a property management business focused on serving industrial owners in the London/St.

Pueblo's housing cost on average compared to Colorado Springs is $150,000 less. 

So which of these houses should I live in? 

This step involves sending formal information requests and setting up meetings or calls to discuss the sponsor's capabilities.

Personally, I wouldn't totally disagree, but it is very much in the eyes of the beholder what "nice place to live" means.Based on your post, I would assume you are getting requests because you are a new landlord (maybe the old one was not a kind person, so tenants chose not to make any requests) and that you are asking them to pay more rent for a unit that is likely in worse condition than when they moved in.So now, you can either tell them no, or you can accommodate and potentially open up pandoras box of setting expectations that you will cater to all requests all the time, or as noted, you can remove yourself from the equation and hire a PM to handle the requests.