There has been a lot of waterside construction and renovations going on to attract new buyers.

Since I freelance, I wouldn't necessarily call that a job.

There’s a lot about real estate investing to make it attractive to investors, including residual income, value appreciation, and the security that comes with owning hard assets.

They are very easy to rent since the rooms are about $400-$450 each and attract a variety of tenants - mostly students, but I also have tenants who are young professionals, recent grads paying down student loans, etc.Let me know if you have any specific questions I can answer.

They more of both of those that you have, the more attractive the returns become.

But I really would have loved to purchase some class C stuff to reposition because while A product became more attractive, C product was trading at truly amazing prices for 3 years after the crash.

As I say to my four children whenever we are in parking lot, “Keep your eyes up and your head on a swivel.”What makes house hacking so attractive to owner occupant buyers is the ease of and number of options for favorable financing.

Nobody is going to tell you the last tenants left some food out and it attracted insects before the cleaning people came. 

I work when I can as a freelance writer and editor/virtual assistant at the moment, but honestly being a SAHM to 5 is really time consuming.

Of course there are many other factors to consider like risk - in my opinion stock market is higher risk than real estate rentals.There are many, many varying factors in real estate so sometimes a 5% ROI real estate deal can be attractive while a 15% ROI may not.