But also, you'd get a better rate just buying your home with a home owner loan. 

At the very least a beginner will get an assignment fee out of the deal.

I have 3 properties in my personal name (to get best rates).

There are still likely a couple (smaller) rate hikes to occur and then quite possibly plateau for the next 12-24 months.

A few I found some information about (mainly to stay away from them as they changed the rates/terms at the last minute), and one had a bunch of fake reviews on the BBB site, but the others I cannot find any information about as far as customer satisfaction.

For reference sake, we have one mortgage at 7.5%; one at 5%; and all other financing below 4% with an overall portfolio weighted average interest rate of 3.785%I don't care too much if you have 5 properties or 500, but I'm curious if others have gone through this thought process at some point in their real estate investment journey and if so how did you make this decision?

Looks like you have a good healthy savings rate and make sure you set aside funds for both expected and unexpected expenses if you do house hack.

Either terminate the PM (and potentially pay a termination fee.) or use them to list and sell the property.

Looking at multi family in mt pleasant and I’m seeing all over online crime rate is very high but agents and PM’s saying the area isn’t bad.

(My company has it’s general liability insurance, of course.)So, this is a temporary arrangement, at least for now.He will charge a fee to pull permits and to do periodic inspections to make sure my subcontractors are doing quality work but I will be project managing the entire job and handling all components of the renovation from design, floor plans, estimating, purchasing, hiring and overseeing the subcontractors, etc.The general contractor and I are regrouping next week to discuss what he would like to charge and I just want to get some feedback from you experts before we meet.