I'm a property tax professional (reducing taxes for commercial property owners) living in Northern Kentucky.

Now, investors can also buy on the high end and improve the home by adding a bathroom, taking a wall out and expanding a kitchen/living area, etc to be able to sell at a profit (a little harder idea to make profit but possible).  

I was living in and renting the house and asked the landlord if he was interested in selling it to me and he was.

This property has 4 bedrooms and only 1.5 bath, which I worry is not ideal for this type of living situation.The house is a split ranch with one car garage and 2 car driveway.

or How fountain (where i live now) is to the springs?

With the amount of money travel nurses and the like make, there is no scenario where they would subject themselves to living in some rent by the room whorehouse slum.

You make money to live, not live to make money (or at least I think a good life works out that way).

Cash flow would likely be a little higher and more marketable for a multi if prospective tenants feel like they have somewhere that’s their own, instead of just living in a room in someone else’s home.

I ask because I once had clients in Denver where the man moved in with the woman and lived for free while he rented the other place, and I was never sure how that calculus worked for her.About renting ... don't overthink it.

We'll both chip in equally for the costs and expenses of the acquiring the property (looking to buy an apartment with a value between 500k-600k in Chicago) and live together for a few years in it.