If you don't have that, keep earning, saving, and managing the risk you take by investing in REITs (which is small but risk still exists).If you already have at least $100k to invest, and you're wondering where to start as an OOS investor, I recommend this dataset that we at BiggerPockets put together specifically for people like you and me.https://www.biggerpockets.com/resources/housing-market-data/...It contains information like job growth, population growth, and rent-price ratio for all markets to compare and contrast.

Hopefully existing as obviously new builds would be worth more.) 

We try to keep good tenants for long term, an dhave several 30 year tenants and a 24 year tenant and average 12.5 years over the portfolio of existing properties.

These 6 items all can require a significant cost to remedy so it's important to be able to identify the existing condition.

But those basically don't exist anymore.

That way they're not soliciting you w/o a pre-existing relationship, and you still get to look at their work. 

I have a strong network here and know the key players/stakeholders in the community and am trying to learn how I can get involved to make an impact to change the community and restore the existing (beautiful) infrastructure. 

It's more "here's what we've got, it's peaceful and pretty, come pay nightly to enjoy it up to 29 nights".

Definitely look into HELOC/cash out options, but if those don't work in terms of rates or availability I'd suggest using the existing cashflow from your multi to offset a primary mortgage, and then find a primary with an ADU.

My question is ,is house hacking dead and to live rent free no longer exist in todays market ?