Your landlord could increase your rate at the next renewal, or your landlord could sell and the new landlord could renew at the market rate.The sooner you begin house hacking the sooner you'll find out if real estate is the path for you.

You can use the costs of classes on a down payment and the time in classes can be used finding properties.All my high net worth RE investor clients don't use their degrees at all.

However, over the past five years or so, increased national attention has led to a surge in supply, thereby putting pressure on occupancy rates, which might hover around 50% annually.

However, you may also be constricted by DTI requirements, as DTI increases as you obtain more properties.

I sold a condo here, really wanted to keep it but HOA was badly managed, 4 increases to HOA fee in 2.5 years.

You will have to stabilize the turmoil that comes with drastic change, and changes you implement to increase efficiencies.

Just because you chose to adjust your price doesn't mean it's immediately worth less.

So worth reaching out to him.

What amount of cash flow per month would it be worth it to keep it?

As you bought it brand new, that is an important factor, but after 10 years, maintenance cost increases so that it is always good reduce the risk.