Ensuring Clear Title make a research is the key, there are professional bidders or auction representatives who can bid on your behalf at auctions, Attend local auctions as an observer to gain firsthand experience and understanding of how they operate, As you proceed, always conduct thorough due diligence on properties of interest, including property inspections, financial analysis, and legal review.

Such as: Do comps include seller paid commissions?

My wife is about to go back to school so she will not be contributing income as well as she will be tacking on a lot more debt to her initial student loans.

It may also include submitting the requisite permits to support your plan.  

There are several reasons for that including but not limited to, landlord friendliness, lower prices, population growth projection, positive job growth rates, lower crime rates, 1% rule, to name a few.

I’ll check out the links that you included, I really appreciate that a lot.

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If you keep your rental, it will affect your debt to income ratio. 

There is no problem with a NonQM wholelender or a broker to do a 5+ to 30 unit STR.It would be a DSCR loan and I love the Airdna report that can help get your loan to debt service.There are options of looking at rent rolls and or statements from Airbnb, Vrbo and so on.

Is there a certain neighborhood, owner occupied vs. not owner occupied, length of ownership, debt on property vs. no debt, etc.