I understand that not all deals pan out as pro forma says but at least yearly updates are essential, quarterly even better.

Keep in mind that owning rental properties, even if it is a house hack, means operating a business and thus should be treated as one, respectively.

I don't want to step on any toes, but if you're not working with an agent, I'd be happy to help you, but even if you are,  I'd be happy to talk with you about the Redding area and answer any questions you might have, etc.

Even trusting a brand new GC who's licensed/"qualified" is a risk from out of state, let alone out of country.

(They claimed thousands for electrical using what appeared to be a fake electrical company, and they never had someone out to even check electrical beyond the general.) 

However, even though we found it a bit odd that the husband didn’t have all the details right away, we decided to move forward with the application process.

We even got a storage locker to keep things I find but that became expensive, too 😊I'm now not afraid to spend a bit more on finding the design I'm looking for.  

We built a single family home version of a 2 bed 1 bath with surface parking at cost with no profit all in with land for 175k in newark ohio, a suburb of columbus ohio. when we push that to 3 units and closer to the city for our build to rent model the numbers go way better. a 30k slab for a single family home is 30k, a 30k slab for a triplex is 10k a door. we designed a 2 bed 1 bath design at 668 sq ft and it's very good layout even I would live there, but I would never build anything that small again. there's no economies of scale. you need density and shared lines, resources, shared roof shared slab, shared windows, etc the cost goes way down.

That might even be enough to make it hard to be hired by a traveling nurse agency.BTW, I am not a lawyer that can give legal advice.

That's the other challenge that i've learned, with only one month as SD, if the tenant leaves even in a relatively new build the fees add up.