New Bedford Listing Inventory is performing well and does better than the previous year (minus the big swing in February).

If you have those attributes and know how to screen well, its a very rewarding and lucrative business model.

I've shifted my focus from textbooks to spending quality time with my dad, who hasn't been feeling well lately, and I'm aiming to build up some savings through investments.Now, I don't have a car, but I have a friend who works nights and has kindly offered to give me rides anywhere between 3am and 4pm.

You need to find deals well below market to start and that alone is almost impossible today unless you have solid connections with wholesalers.

But yeah, use a pipe-wrench to try pound a nail, well duh, it's not the pipe-wrenches fault. 

It tested low: Highest levels are .3, well below the 1.5 legal limit for contamination.However, it’s been suggested that I still might want to hire a remediation company to do HEPA-vac + wet wipe throughout the home.

Not all investors share the same goal.If it's strictly positive cash flow, you're going to have a tough time meeting that goal while living in one of the units these days in Belmont Shore.Under the current economic decisions, if you're going to live in one of the units, a more realistic goal might be to subsidize your mortgage with the other two incomes to bring your mortgage payment down, build equity, ride the market appreciation, force some appreciation of your own, refinance when rates are in your favor to crush the mortgage payment down, and keep positive cash flow for a long-term goal.Belmont Shore is a nice area where homes hold their value well and enjoy good appreciation as well as strong rents and in general, the type of renters landlords are looking for.Belmont Shore is also a good area for short-term rentals and you may want to consider renting one unit as an LTR and the other as an STR.Ultimately, your situation is going to dictate whether this triplex is a good investment for you and your husband but as a Long Beach resident, I know that Belmont Shore is an area that people aspire to buy a home in.

You can buy top dollar Class A properties that get the highest relative appreciation, but the rents won't cashflow well.

I’d look at it another way figure out where you want to live and than figure out if house hacking is a way to afford that area and if you have a long term plan to afford that place with at most one roommate, you will find it hard to break even much less make money house hacking anywhere in the region so may as well buy in a place you want to be long term, if your not ready to commit at least medium term, rent.

Both impressive with their expectations and training of their staff as well as their ability to perform.