I am just now officially starting my journey into real estate.  

I still find myself getting distracted with the other "shiny objects" of investing and need to reign myself back in every so often :)Good luck on your journey!

Yosi there are many people here on BP who have a lot of experience with syndication, and there are people like me who are early in their real estate/multifamily/syndication journey, and there are many more who have experience passively investing as limited partners in syndications. 

I'll be looking out for more details to follow along with your journey on this house hack. 

In truth I bet the cash flow is better outside the city, because I spend far less on turning a unit than those in town do, I suspect.

Peeking your profile and hearing your background, you're someone I'd love to learn more from in this journey :)

The appraisal alone for a property of this size is going to run $4k+ if I had to bet.

I'll bet that they're every bit as strict as MA. 

It's around $1800, yeah it looks like a bad one, but I'm betting on future tech companies (apple, google) to bring more positions to the city and appreciation might be able to cut it, but I could be totally wrong though.

@Varinder Kumar  Credit unions are your best bet.