A few tips to get started: focus on networking with local investors, attend meetups or join online forums, and consider reading books like "The Millionaire Real Estate Investor" or "Rich Dad Poor Dad."

Where do I start?

I moved from Portland OR to Columbus OH to start house hacking.

Hello, my name is Angela I am trying to start this journey but I am not sure how to start it. 

If you know where you are going, you should start saving for that market now instead.

In the near term appreciation is not guaranteed, but over a long hold it has been a virtual guarantee as it has occurred for every 12 year period going back to start of price records and the 12 year was the Great Recession. - equity pay down is significant on expensive property.So if using 50% expense ratio, if you are less negative than market rent, you are likely doing better than most local RE investors.  

I am honestly clueless about how to start or make the move.

If you have more than yourself that will need to have access to the CRM to share task or contacts, that's when CRM software starts to make sense.

Our long-term plan is to eventually move out, rent both units, and buy a house of our own.

I researched all these different corporate structures very in depth when i was starting and now that I look back, I wasted a lot of time trying to "protect" myself from the 1 in a million things instead of just focusing on the main goal of acquiring and operating RE assets.