I'm curious about what the experience is like, especially for first-time buyers.

You can do well with a more simple approach, but it won't be easy either way.

If you have the means to get a loan and house hack in your current situation, I'd think living in a college town and knowing that town and area well would give you a strategic advantage.  

Of course we will ask these questions to our CPA as well, but would really love any feedback. 

It should also make AL licenses transferable again.In any case you can do short term rental without the AL license as well, as long as you register each contract with finanças as a normal rental.

Looking forward to hearing your stories and collaborating with like-minded investors.

Also, there was regularly raw garbage or trash bags left sitting on the ground. 

I have a nice hi-rise condo unit and I get tons of companies asking if I do MTRs for Visiting Nurses, Tech Professionals, etc.My place is positioned near a number of large DC Metro Hospitals, but since covid work-from-home and recent lift of Eviction Moritorium, I have had few people with jobs, but a ton of people recently evicted looking to rent my place.The one viable group - visiting nurses has been excluded because my HOA will not allow short or mid-term rentals (anything less than one year is a No-No).They claim too many transient tenants cause excessive wear and tear on the property and too many people using resources like the gym, or pool or common areas.I think that's a lot of horse waste!

Sounds like you've got a good buy box and plan, executing is the hard part!

I’m new to the BiggerPockets community and excited to connect with like minded investors.