The thing about the 4 unit house hack is the # of available properties that fit your criteria is much smaller and you would need to be patient to find one that fit your investment criteria and also happens to be somewhere you want to live.

The play in acquistion in the next year will be which suburban markets surrounding Urban Cities sch as Philadelphia (whether NJ OR PA), The glimmer of hope is NYC is much worse than Philly for Safety which it is attracting New Yorkers to move hear to work virtually and below there means. whether you rent to section 8 or risk with market rents where cannot currently evict due to Covid 19.

Safety is important too..

Patients don’t file lawsuits because they’ve been harmed by shoddy medical care.

Just make sure you're not taking out load bearing walls and causing anything that could become a safety concern to tenants.

Since my target tenants are military or medical staff I stayed patient.

From a safety standpoint, certain amounts of mold (if I recall correctly: anything over 10 linear feet) require certified remediation (with negative air scrubbers, etc) to avoid cross contaminating the entire property and, frankly, to protect nearby people.

The scenario:Three door property, only 1 of which meets FHA requirements for safety.

It's competitive out there right now but be patient, you'll find something.

Then we had to install a fire sprinkler system to comply with their NEW 2018 fire safety codes. 24 months later we were cleared, but it could have been very expensive if we could not have done it all ourselves.