There is a post on this site for a number of years, see: Missing agent, and the news article: Agent DisappearanceMy daughter is going to a conference, this weekend, meeting with people she only met on-line, meet and travel to an Airbnb site from the airport.

Here is a great article on house hacking your vacation rental: https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/10042/64779-8-ways-to-effectively-hunt-for-your-vacation-house-4-free

You can use the VA Renovation loan to purchase a primary residence that you intend to occupy. then you can sell it down the road if you so desire, but you must intend to occupy the property as your primary residence, and you get close to crossing the mortgage fraud line if you buy the home with the sole intention of flipping it.You can't really do a live in flip with the VA loan where you do your own work either, because the VA loan (non-renovation) won't let you buy a trashed house, and the VA renovation loan requires you to use a contractor on the Dept. of Veteran Affairs registry.Hope this helps, I have two articles on BiggerPockets that should shed some more light on the VA loan if you would like to read more!

Analyzing deals with the tools you have, wholesales that get sent over, internet research, finding houses on auction sites or zillow and analyzing those, just keep doing it.

I've found this article that mentions the various nuances of moving back into your rental property. https://www.merriman.com/wealth-preservation/planning-on-moving-back-into-your-rental-in-the-future-read-this-first/I'm hoping to get some specific direction about the following points1.

It is unclear what the exit plan is and from the articles I've read they have options but are not clear on the exit themselves. 

I usually see articles on how someone bought an apartment building and the next year or two then bought another one but with the low cash flow not sure how they do it other than find other investors?

Just read this article in the dispatch detailing that, "by the end of this year, more than 10,000 residents are expected to call Downtown Columbus home, according to a new report that documents more than $1 billion in residential development underway Downtown and another $1.7 billion proposed."

But then it would disconnect from the internet and I would know anyway.Something to think about and I know most Landlords won't go this high tech!

Consult a qualified real estate attorney before entering into a sales contract calling for owner finance, and never use forms of the internet to document such transactions.