My Condo has a private entrance, 3 bedroom 2 bath, and allows dogs with NO weight restrictions which is pretty uncommon around here. 

You want a crappy enough truck you can actually use it.Then I have a nice sedan for DD duty that is comfortable, safe, and good fuel economy.Works out wonderfully, and its cheaper to have both than 1 nice truck.

Once the bid was accepted it was a constant back and forth about how if I wanted to “upgrade” to nice hardware it was going to cost me extra.

We routinely use our realtor for purchases and sales, and yes on occasion we could probably save a couple bucks without a realtorOn the flip side our realtor is a business partner of sorts, she brings us off market opportunities, She provides input on purchases and sales.Just this last week she was nice enough to meet an appraiser at a property we were getting refinanced. 

If there's an opportunity to make large cash flows after forcing value, and still maintain nice margins that's better in a sense, but also riskier & also more time intensive. 

And 12 more from marketing efforts.I'm sure these numbers are going to need to be adjusted.

Nice to meet someone in a similar situation (currently househacking, recovering ex-consultant, also hoping to quit the 9-5 at some point in the near-ish future, and looking for properties in similar parts of town).

But B + neighborhoods are nice. 

It may sound nice to pay a 5% management fee but the extra fees can add up to be more than the other company that charges 10% with no add-on fees.

A nice 2/1 that I bought back in 2015...nice times...