There are also Zoom calls where people practice their underwriting live.

It very well could become a large enough investment to be worthwhile, also solving for "unexpected emergencies ", for the most part and would an easy self management situation if you were to live onsite in one of your connected townhomes.

(I lived in Houston for 29 years--last place was the Rice Lofts downtown.  

I flipped and did some buy and hold when I lived in Florida.   

I haven't lived in it long enough to be exempt from capital gains, good point on that.

You have multiple people living in each others spaces.

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Living trust does nothing for anonymity.

There should be a class action law suit again multifamily mindset that has ripped off so many people and tore their lives apart in a horrible way.

I went owner occupied either conventional or FHA.  3-5% down at the time you only had to live there 1 year and then you can move out or move on.