Hi Zachary, I personally recommend checking the Columbus OH market.

And they failed during the housing bubble. 

House hack another property with a low down payment loan and use the remainder or the proceeds to either renovate or purchase another investment property?  

If house hacking isn't the best option for me, how would you recommend starting out to build up some investments.

And not knowing their numbers also makes it next to impossible to know if you have a bad PM that's eating into your cash flow as well (Like Vacasa charging $800-1000 a month for elecrtic on a 4/3, 2000sqft house with a pool). 

I personally like the town of Oakhurst and the restrictions are less rigorous than Mariposa. 2.)

I’m the last person who should complain about grammar, but these are yellow flags, at best.

Vacant land, or an existing house you tore down, and built a new house on the cleared land? 

- How much would you say the house is realistically worth?

If you can't find people to live in the house, that's the risk you have to take.