The industry you are in is a very tough one, myself coming from the airline pilot industry as being so cyclical I and appreciate many of the things you are going thru, especially with the downturn that my industry is currently experiencing.If I were to give you some advice I would suggest that you first define your end goal which is seems like you have already, Now you need to make that a SMART Goal with and end date attached to it and then actionable steps that you can take on a daily, weekly, monthly , yearly track.

Xavier, What State are you in? I

The margins seem pretty slim if you rent it out (I didn't see any assumptions for mx or pm built in). I

Had they renewed the contract and there was mold left, of course a mold waiver would go into the contract as well.Second landlord lesson:  I was house hacking and one tenant's background check came back with a violent event but he was a smooth talker and explained it away and I let him move in.  I

Mine at least used to show mostly threads that my colleagues had posted in. I

Going in I knew I could cash flow as a SFH.  

There are just so many questions I have that makes me tentative to just dive in. I

This has really delayed me from jumping in. I

It almost does not matter why the prior PM and owner let that person in. I

Had we not been moved in, I imagine policy change requirement would have alerted lender that it wasn't being used as a primary residence.