.- Folks who are low on cash - Folks who do not trust you to give them security back or had some kind of incidents in the past with another landlord- Folks who caused damage to your apartmentIf they have low cash, ask them to at least pay half rent for the last month, if they believe you wont return them deposit remind them about your great relationship and explain that you do not have any reason to withhold deposit after move-out, for folks who could have caused damage to your apartment I would recommend conducting an inspection ASAP to see if there was damage done and confront them about it asap.

In other words, you can buy more property if you were house hacking than you could just to live in.That said, if you walk into most banks, they wont know about this and will give you wrong information. 

Let's say you get a list together of homes you want to see, you can spend your time calling them all and trying to get in touch with them all and getting them to meet you to show you the house individually, or you can have your agent make all those calls, figure out how to show them all to you and do it in one day, without your agent you wont see them all in one outing. 

Laminate floors hold up fine, but they get destroyed in rentals due to water.

I don't even know how you price in the risk associated with destroying all those relationships if things go south. 

I do want to add that there are multiple accredited investors in Biggerpockets that operate in the DMV area and since the market here is fairly high and competitive cash wont necessarily guarantees that you will get a good deal or good people to put a deal together (cash will get you a good realtor but that's about it). 

Pittsburghreia.com You wont get a better price than Free. 

Some rock salt on your stoop twice a year or so in Arkansas isn't going to destroy them.

Tell him as long he can hear the pipes he wont freeze to death😁

Vacancies can destroy an investment so quickly.Flipping the land for double would be fantastic.