You’ll have a better feel for property values, rental demand, and rehab costs in areas you know well, making it easier to manage and scale your investments. 

It offers affordable housing, solid rental demand, and generally favorable landlord laws.

Tenants ended up demanding concessions or just plain skipped out of their lease and disappeared.Also, unbeknownst to us, the former owner tried poaching all of the month to month tenants to their building across the street.

Is there strong demand for rentals and is it potentially possible to rent a room for 1500-2000 depending on the location (slightly cheaper than a studio from what I've been seeing which is how I priced my rooms in AZ)?

Healthy tenant base and rental demand as well as two section 8 voucher providers in the city, CTI and LHA.

You will get people willing to share in high demand areas and you will see this in high rent areas but you are keeping up the common areas and it is a bit harder.

Denver Creative Housing, Denver Sublets, Roomies, Roommates, and so on, there are a few good ones)Also, I use Roomies as well because it is a site specific to finding roommate tenants, and there is a huge demand for it as well, so it is a great alternative to fill vacancies for houses if your owners are open to it and you price it correctly. 

@Emmanuel RugambaChicago is a great market for house hacking because of its affordable 2-4 unit properties, strong tenant demand, and diverse neighborhoods.

, demand came from travelers, students, and nurses.

Not enough people to generate the demand to sell enough houses for that size property and not enough people for a factory or something to come to because they wouldn't be able to get enough employees from the surrounding areas.Is that a good hunting area?