We feel stuck right now on what the "right" thing to do is in finding the balance between cash flow and equity when house hacking.

I'm also a local realtor in Houston so feel free to reach out if you specific questions about our market. - Chris Kersey@ckerseyrealestate

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/1113749-cost-...

Feel free to reach out no charge.

For online rental payments I use Apartments.com as it's free for both me and the tenant and they have good customer service when I call them. 

I reached out to Arcana (now MSI) as they are recommended by a number of threads I've seen on Bigger Pockets...They don't deal with customers directly, but did offer a list of agents/companies that will.

Maybe they're better, maybe they're worse, but they'll sure as hell be paying market rent.Send tenant a note today:Dear Tenant,We have concluded our research and feel that the current market rent of this unit is $3,500.

Feel free to connect if you would like to chat.Staci

Feel free to reach out if you would like to set up a call to discuss.

On another note, I know this is not a popular opinion, but I wrote a BP blog about why I feel sub-to should be illegal.