It is a townhome built in 2017 in a family-friendly, growing area, and it already has a tenant living there.

This home was behind my current 3 family home (I Live in ) it was the hoarders home in a great community and I could put parking on the lot - If you Live near the Jersey Shore you need many places to park How did you find this deal and how did you negotiate it?

Lived there the past three years.

No offense Melanie but I'd rather own 20-30 in Ohio than 5 in Cali.20-30 in Ohio and managed well is retirement.Owning 5 in an appreciating market is speculation.One can't pay the bills from speculation or appreciation unless they pull out equity.Monthly net cashflow can be lived off per se.Thanks and each to their own

Full rehab of the home to include new primary and secondary bathrooms, installation of new island and coffee nook with granite countertops, new water resistant LVP floors throughout, new paint, crown moulding in living room & kitchen, new electric water heater, and conversion of coat closet to mud room.

I live, work, and invest in Springfield, OH and am currently working mostly with investors.

Entrata, which is a solution for larger PM's, has a service where tenants can call a 24 hour US based call center, the live agent determines the severity of the service request and then adds it to their portal, or if its an emergency, calls on-call maintenance and coordinates their response.

It is a townhome built in 2017 in a family-friendly, growing area, and it already has a tenant living there.

We seem to be living in that brief liminal state where AI is extremely helpful for just about everything including things like this I hadn't even thought of, right before it replaces us completely 

The disadvantage of living in NYC is that the prices of homes here are high.The advantage is that our salary is higher than other areas.I think you should consider to continue living in NYC and invest in out of state rentals.The only exception would be, if you can work remote and keep your NYC salary, then I would consider a house-hack elsewhere.