Not making this a starting out post since I already "Started Out" a few years ago, but now that I'm in a better spot financially I'm back here and looking to purchase a house hack in the near future and would love some advice from local investors.I am new to the Louisville area (moved here so my partner could go to medical school) and as such I am trying to identify what areas make sense for a house hack.

As the medical fields fractal into ever evolving novel practices of medicine, odd new solutions for the once complicated and most darkening emotion of unacceptably will be phased away like shedding a waist size.

Not only do we have beach tourism (#5 ranked beaches by TripAdvisor in the world in 2021), we have educational tourism (one of the largest universities - USF and then UT), and also medical tourism (we have some of the best hospitals in the country especially for outpatient services).

For the same reasons, I like anything near Wealthy Street or Medical Mile. 

This is due in large part to major corporations like Intel, Honda, Nationwide Children's Hospital, and Wexner Medical Center investing heavily in the region and creating numerous job opportunities.

Find medical professionals-I've called 48 medical related businesses, they've already made their plans4.

Your move for her medical degree may have been the best thing for your investing career.Tim

We recently had a baby and all the medical stuff is through portals now.

my san francisco home of ~30 years is about to close (under contract for ~$2M+) and i need to shelter about half for a 1031, since we rented the downstairs & the cottage. the SF home is ~95% paid off, so i'll have about $900k for the 1031 and about the same in cash. my wife and i will use our $500k homeowners exemption to offset the tax hit for the non-rental portion. i'm now living in marin county, near my primary care medical office, but home prices here are astronomic compared w/ elsewhere. i won't have time to do the management myself (even locally) for quite a while, so i'll need somebody to do that, whether i buy locally or not. the only RE investment i've ever made is the SF house in the 1980s, which i bought for about a fifth of the purchase price. but since i won't be practicing forever, and don't have much saved, i'll be relying on the ~1.8M+ as retirement income someday. needless to say, the free clinic didn't offer a 401k ;^) triple nets seem a little scary, since i don't have a feel for them. my dad was a contractor, and i helped him take care of tenants in the few small MF buildings he built, and i've been a landlord (for the tenants in my SF house).

From the corporate relocation and travel medical agencies I've talked to it seems like you need at least 5 in a given market to secure contracts directly with the agencies.