I’m a rookie investor in a small city, currently In the rehab stage of what I thought would be my first BRRRR(single family).

If you get a large enough building, finish it out in stages.6Market locationSeek your higher income areas first.

This is how I've narrowed it down currently to help me from staying in the analyst paralysis stage.

I also staged condo when selling.

So you're just looking to cut costs and undercut at every stage vs. building a long-term relationship?

However, with that being said, generally speaking if you're still in the early stages of your investing career and working on acquiring your first investment property and expanding your rental portfolio, you will be much better off going with 30 year mortgages. 

All the house hacking, I read about it, so know the topic but at this stage of my life it is not an option.

Staging?

Staging?

I consider this common knowledge within the industry among professionals at this (very late) stage in the game.