**Interior Renovations**: Upgrading kitchens, bathrooms, or flooring can justify higher rents and attract quality tenants.5.

Be conservative when you run your numbers on rents with prices/interest rates.

I have a few regular rental properties there and find it to be a pretty good rent to price ratio.

Drive a 2009 car that is paid off.I'm taking this next year to rent in Chicago (rent is about 1600/month) but am starting to seriously think about house-hacking and want to start talking numbers now so that I might be ready to close about a year or so from now. 

We took them as Fixer-uppers and made them liveable to raise the Rents and try to make $100 a month in positive Cash Flow.

You've got $90k into it, what is it renting for?

If the STR income is on your tax return it is qualified just like long term rent using this form:  https://content.enactmi.com/documents/calculators/Form1038.C...

I told them I would guarantee rent is paid & there property is maintained.

Also, I’m curious if military families rent in the Ozark area and how that area is for rentals. 

Have been renovating and getting the units rented out.