With a house hack you can use an FHA loan and only have to put down a couple percent I typically hear 3.5%.

When house hunting, unless you want to purchase your own kitchen, look for homes which include a kitchen in the rent price, this is typically displayed as “EBK” or Einbaukuche” There are few expats who move to Germany with their kitchen sink in hand, so ensure your know and expect this before visiting a kitchen-less home.9.

First & foremost begin the new lease June 1 in the name of husband only - do not amend previous lease to make husband signatory.Because this is leased property anyone else entering the property not allowed by official tenant is essentially trespassing.

For ex if ARV of property is 700K . 95% of that = 665KAnd Lets assume you already borrowed 530K So far , then you can essentially use that 135K for next deal .

Essentially, want to get advice from a professional on asset protection (LLC?)

I know that investors typically cover those expenses on multi-families, however not sure about SFH. 

Is it so far away from other cities you'd essentially need to build a whole new city?

It not only explains what each metric in a complete analysis is but also what the formulas are (for example, NOI) and how they all work together: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/8814/73755-18-essential-metrics-to-a-complete-real-estate-investment-analysisReach out if I can help with anything and best of luck.

I typically buy houses that are in good school districts because in general good school districts have very nice neighborhoods that make the house easy to rent out.

I also build my own kitchen cabinets from scratch, takes about a week of part-time work for face frame kitchen cabinets for a typical kitchen.