Although I have a few properties under management, I myself am not a material for a landlord.Although your message was mainly "bad news," it brought some hope and taught me a lot.Thank you.Sincerely,Mariusz 

Since you only invested $2,000 I am assuming that the lender brought up the other portion for the downpayment?

I did direct marketing through cold calling and was able to buy a property at about 70k and basically brought 3.5k down, with an FHA loan.

A broker brought the off-market deal.

So it is not social media that will make you or break you... how good are you at showing your audience you are indeed credible.Once you have that mastered you can pick any venue you want... however.. what you need to ask yourself is this... where do you think motivated sellers will hang out?

The problem is, being young and planning on continuing to househack my way through a few more properties using the low down payment programs for owner-occupants, that equity doesn't do me any good sitting in this property, and I can't refinance any cash out because all the improvements only brought it to the minimum 20%.

A Brookings Institution report attributes part of the decrease to the pandemic, which brought more deaths and more travel restrictions to most of 2020.Any increases in population indicate where people are heading to weather the Covid-19 pandemic, since the Census Bureau numbers are based on estimates collected this year.

And anything not up to code will have to be brought up to code at that point.

He's a good, ethical, influencer who isn't too out of touch with his audience.

I appreciate the time and effort you all have taken to elaborate on this issue, you both have brought up really valuable points that I will use when continuing to weigh this decision.