On the topic of your house hack, it will make the most sense to house-hack with a duplex, triplex, or a quadplex as it might be more difficult to explain to a VA lender that you will be house hacking (Sharing or renting out rooms) on a VA loan with a SFH.

I would love to connect with people in the area to get conversations started and build connections.

People even rent out basement apartments in their own house.

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I just returned to Jackson after 30 years gone and want to get started again with investment properties (primarily buy-and-hold or rehabbing and reselling to help people get their own home).

It is also a good place to search for information about a lender to see if they are legitimate or bogus.However, because the site has no supervision and essentially no webmaster to moderate the forum, it has become a total free for all for the most unprofessional, trash talking people you can imagine.

If you go to meetups for 6 months and just talk to people and never have an ask, you will find friends, partners, JV deals, and mentorship.

I'm staying at a furnished home here in ybor and I see alot of land that is unused and alot of building that I feel can be repurposed to make the place better and help the people.

Instead, there will be unintended  consequences that will negatively impact the very people they claim to be for. 

I have done this several times and is my primary method of providing rentals which if done correctly, actually does help people.