When considering potential tenants, it is important to have a clear and consistent policy in place regarding credit scores and other factors.

Louis as a high-potential market.

What tax benefits might you receive that could potentially offset some of your tax burden with such high income?

You can look to a bit higher risk areas for more appreciation potential while coming closer to cash flowing today.

Love the area (Mooresville, NC), saw a huge value-add potential.

However, most of the work involved involves searching for off-market raw land with development potential, finding the owner and seeing if they're willing to sell. 

I am betting there is a lot of people happy to pay $100/$200 to do such, happy to be in a group, to go over the basics like *sole proprietor, LLC or S-corp for landlords, what is best for tax's and why.

I will bet I can send you some great deal, but you won't have the ability to know they are deals because you don't have the experience to do the math.The biggest problem both new and experienced investors have is nobody watches our backs because everyone has their own agenda and the greed more money.What you need is to do is; rather than banging your head against a concrete wall, post the properties you are looking at, write as much detail about each property as you can including rehab costs, rental income, how much you can increase rents and then let people give you their opinions and advice.Here is a serious problem with people who own their own business and then we wonder why some people are successful and why some are not. 

I am seeking insights and recommendations from the community regarding potential locations in and around Orlando where full duplexes might be more readily available within my budget.My plan is to house hack, and based on my initial calculations, I anticipate an extra expense of $1.5K beyond rental income to cover the mortgage.

Be careful to not get your credit score lowered because you have too many inquiries.If you can't go conventional, then DSCR is your next best bet.