In business, brand is everything and providing value to your customers is essential.

Because, house hacking can produce great financial returns, it teaches you essential RE investing skills, but (compared to more advanced strategies like BRRR'ing or wholesaling), it is comparatively lower risk, simple and beginner-friendly (and therefore has the highest likelihood of success).More specifically:1.

Evictions were only allowed for safety items. 

Also, it's a much easier learning curve to manage a property you live in or near, than to try to manage a property in another area/state (which makes management exponentially trickier). ...because of all these advantages, I'd suggest going for a property you know you'd be comfortable house hacking (even if you decide not to HH, it's a very nice safety net to have the option!)

Essentially, you can apply for a regular investment DSCR loan and just advertise that unit as a 12-month lease only to stay within the guidelines of the lender.

This money (property tax revenue) is utilized to fund essential resources and public services for Texas citizens, including public schools, libraries, emergency services, road maintenance, and community safety measures.If property tax reform occurred, this would likely result in redistributing the tax burden by implementing state income tax or introducing higher sales tax rates to make up this shortfall.

There aren't many PMs that manage in those areas because of many things; cost, time, headache and safety. 

@Ellen Diamond I essentially found that as i was looking for MF in the 5-10 unit range several months ago, while sales price and rents were lower, cap rates were more or less the same (4-5%) than what could be found in the San Fran Bay area.

@Louis D.I’ve been in the STR business for over 2 years in NOLA and I’m sorry that they essentially killed arbitrage one this market.

@Kurt Newton the 2% rule is essentially dead in most markets.