Your criteria look good for finding properties with solid equity and motivated sellers.

Also keep in mind its 24 months technically not 2 years, so as long as you have 24 months of the past 5 years (does not need to be consecutive) Your good

These numbers are not a house hacking scenario but to check if the deal is good so that I can start house hacking.

Good luck, but likely have to go with a big guy.

We have very good cashflow here on our rentals.

I've learned that a little bit of naivety is good because otherwise an individual may never take the leap if they possessed all the knowledge and truly knew how much risks are involved.

Welcome to BiggerPockets Renee and good luck investing!

Good rental market* ( BP won’t allow me to edit my post title. )Hello,I'm looking to invest in a property for house hacking or to live in for 1-2 years before converting to a rental.

Good question.  

Thanks for your response, they sound great, being on BP as an ad I would have to assume they are credible but I keep hearing $900 in cash flow and it just sounds too good to be true.