May allow you to get more rent vs the same house next door without a pool. 

Two flats are essentially just houses.... they trade like houses and there is a lot of emotion involved.

Purchase price: $355,000 3 unit house hack with 2 separate buildings. 3 Bedroom/2 bath, 2 bedroom/2 bath, 1 bed/1 bath.

One thing I continue to think about is how valuable 2-4 unit properties are becoming, and will continue to be, since Fannie/Freddie took the income restrictions from the 5% down conventional loan option for house hackers. 

***depending on how far the house is from the coast, you mayalso be required to have a separate Wind or Hurricane deductible.

I would like to sell a couple properties in the future, would I be able to use the 1031 strategy to buy one house that I would use as a primary residence?

I flipped two my first year and made a great profit $70,000+(2021), I had zero land deals the next year (2022) I had two deals fall thru,  but used my knowledge and resources to get my family into a bigger/newer house ( using subject-to financing), sell my old house and payoff the sub-to mortgage and make $20,000 on top.  

The December 2024 report from the Austin Board of REALTORS® (ABoR) shows stable housing prices and balanced market conditions in the Austin metro as we reached year’s end.

As far as your next property, if you are already considering moving you will get better loan options + interest rates if you decide to live in the next property and rent out your current house. 

If so, you may be able to wholesale the property to someone (perhaps even someone in one of those $400,000 houses) in such a way that you and your grandmother come out whole.