The reason is the rent-to-price ratio is good so you can cash flow, and most of the West side doesn’t have a Point of sale inspection which is really annoying.

I have too many questions for one post, so keeping this post broad and will ask more specific questions in the coming weeks/months.I have a good 6-figure job and some limited real estate investing experience (own one short term rental in the Denver area and recently Airbnb'ed a second property under the rental arbitrage model). 

So, I assume someone is making money doing it.

May be able to google too.Most wholesale carpet stores will quote you a lot less than the guys advertising on TV and with big fancy showrooms but know there is still room to negotiate but may take you purchasing several times so that the salesman realizes you are a return customer.

This indicates that buyers are taking their time to make decisions, so sellers need to be patient and persistent.

Tired of renting so decided to buy our first home.

Because I'm new to the community and specifically to house hacking, I have so many questions and would love to hear about how you all got started.

So most likely you'd have to come out of pocket or find a partner that wants in on the deal to provide the liquidity. 

If selling retail, I call BS to it because in Listing retail it's NOT about you, the listing agent, having a bunch of buyers, it's about being BEST at marketing a property to all the potential buyers, buyer gate keepers and so on. 

I would like to pull out some equity from my primary property so I can start investing in real estate, but my house is in need of some renovation.