This is indeed a bit of a longer term play, because in the transition phase you're still likely to have quetionable tenants that you're going to be dealing with.

My wife and I are house hacking with a property and transitioned from the apartment attached to our home being an Airbnb, to a tenant, in hopes of a more passive investment.

Mass plumbing code requires this for stand up showers where as regular tub/shower combo is 1 1/2".

When are you and your wife making the transition down? 

I closed on 2 apartment complexes in separate states as well as a triplex almost simultaneously.Definitely not for the faint-hearted.The last gory details are all spelt out in detail in the new blog post below:77702-a-transition-to-apartment-complexes

Commercial apartment deals, i.e. syndications, allowed for me to transition.

My WHY is to have the time and financial freedom to do some yrly traveling (vacationing) with my family and to build the dream that still burns in my heart for the ministry transitional homes.

You might be amazed to learn this, but I think you are clearly one of those broken people, Nick.I also take pills and eat meat and therefore sanction what I believe to be the mass, cruel murder of animals for medical experimentation and food.I am closing on my next investment property on the 11th which was found for me by a real estate agent that I wouldn't trust as far as I can throw him. 

We have much more reasonable pricing here than Boston, Cambridge and north.If you're thinking about buy & hold, I suggest contacting Mass Housing to attend one of their landlord workshops so you can get a good handle on the landlord/tenant laws here.Having owned a business there for 11 years, I know Randolph pretty well and would suggest that if you want to invest there, you look toward North Randolph. 

Last year we bought a commercial property and put it into an LLC immediately. The accounting was fairly simple. Everything was tracked with the LLC immediately.This year, my wife and I bought a 4 plex and used convent...