If the rent is deposited into your account then you have accepted payment.I use apartments.com and zillow to handle payments - they allow you to block payments.This won't help you this time but in the future your lease should specify how they are allowed to pay rent, specify payment options that give you control over the payment.

The lot is 3x the size of the other option and the home has very high potential for value add.

If you're going to stay in Westchester, you'll have more options on the market this time around than when you first used the househack strategy.

Hey Madina,DSCR is a great option, especially if you want to purchase the property under an LLC.

The 10 doors are also not appreciating because they were turnkey and the 1 door is in a vacation area and appreciating.You should be hunting assets because strong assets give you multiple options.

There are many different options to house hack in MD, and I'm looking at a few options right now for another buyer.

What would you say about a property that lists on multiple platforms, or takes direct bookings?

There are Cash, Wraps, Seller Financing, Carrybacks, Contract for Deed, Lease Options and of course, FHA, VA, Conventional loans, HELOCS and commercial among other approaches.

Cross reference with employers with higher education off linkedin (use an API), and see if there's a correlation between housing prices in districts which are being gentrified, school ratings over that time period, and housing prices (in fact maybe there's another correlation between if these employers work for recently IPO'd companies and are exercising fresh options to purchase real estate).

is there an online platform for purchasing this?