The kitchen, living room, and bedroom are one room, the laundry and bathroom are together.

You'll likely also reduce your cost of living by moving to a stabilized apartment.Depending on the cashflow and debt paydown, you can use this strategy until you've built enough equity to reinvest.On the other hand, getting into a multi-family after refinancing will also help you build substantial equity to rinse and repeat in the coming years.

I am a 37 year old high school basketball coach that is not very happy with where I am financially and am seeking a way out of living paycheck to paycheck.

You want to focus on areas where you have a competitive advantage (you have lived there or you have family and friends there) and then compare those areas against widespread list of great areas to invest.Good luck!

The law does NOT apply to landlords:With less then 5 rental unitsThat live in one unit of a duplex and rent out the other unitThat rent out rooms in the home they occupySo, landlords can no longer state in their rental ads, "Section 8 not accepted".The reverse is also true, "Section 8 only", cannot be used.We've always recommended screening S8 tenants the same way as cash-paying tenants.Landlords waiving application fees and/or security deposits only for S8 prospects may also be violating Fair Housing.

I purchased my first home through NACA to actually live in and I'm curious on how to build my RE portfolio from here.

I’m on the deed, not the loan for the current house I live in here in GA. 

The wear/tear is much less for STR because the guests do not live their full-time.   

Additionally, young adults are living together with no intention of marriage.  

I live in Lawrenceville, GA and am beginning my first house hack, working to purchase another property by the end of the year.