I have plenty of clients who manage long distance and around the world. 

I provide the 3115 and 481a adjustments for my clients and their tax professionals with the cost seg studies.

If everything goes right I will be able to refinance and will have created 25% equity, or I may end up having to bring $10-20k to the refinance to get the 75% LTV depending on the appraisal, but even if that's the case it's still a great deal.

I am looking to get into the real estate game early and learn as much as possible, especially about house hacking and possibly short-term rentals.

Post it in the Classified and you'll get all the Cleveland PM's reaching out to you.

And we add the cost of the W/D into the rent, so any units that make it a little more than 1.5 years are profit.

With the HELOC, I think that will still puts me in the black about $125.

Or did you run some numbers or have some other set of data you're using to come to the conclusion that Westmoreland County is, in fact, an area conducive to being profitable in house hacking?

It's the least riskiest way to own income property in my opinion. 

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