You need someone who owns and deals with investors, ideally exclusively.

Looks more to me like either bad advice or not listening to good advise wrt developer. passion aboItbteal estate does not ewual develIoer skill.

Things like population growth, job growth, and nearby amenities, school availability and goodness, public transportation, and retail development are all important. 

Sometimes the economic development department or Chamber of Commerce will be helpful with traffic counts, demographics and local area spending power.

I hope you've seen other threads discussing this, including the threads where our head of development commented.The recent posts should be back in the app, and no it wasn't just iPhone X. 

Ideally you want to pull comps of the same 3 bedroom and 2 bathroom as your house, sold in the last 6 months within a mile and similar areas.

My initial plan was to house hack with my va loan; however, this is looking like a great deal if I could get it for an ideal price (it has been on the market for over 2 mos and I just received word that the condition is considered "poor" as there haven't been any upgrades in a decade and it's looking to be in a B-/C area...so I'm hoping to knock the price down significantly...any advice on this would be appreciated as well!).

And develop a habit of strictly separating LLC/business money from your personal money.Good luck investing!

You might charge a little more rent to account for the vacant months but ideally you'll have time to turn them over and rent them out sooner in the following year.

I am developing a management company.