My recommendations for house hackers right now are townhomes in particular NOVA locations.  

I own 2 apartment buildings in The Annapolis valley Nova Scotia.

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Rtp nova project - all principal at risk (failed project)?

agree with russell, first you are not gonna find a property at 70% ARV anywhere near DC (whether NOVA or MoCo or other parts of MD).

My wife and I house-hacked our first place in ALX renting out the basement on Airbnb as a monthly rental.We're now on our second property doing the same thing.It's short notice, but if you wanna attend today's NOVA REI meetup, it's the last one of 2024 and we're meeting at Tyson's mall on the 3rd floor.

In 2017 we started our journey with long-term buy-and-hold investment properties in the Memphis, TN area after selling a property that we were losing money on every month in NOVA that we purchased as a primary residence in Jan 2007 (talk about all-time bad timing) and then had to move with the Navy in 2009 (2nd all-time worst timing).

This has been my strategy here in NOVA as well - though true multifamily housing stock is hard to come by as you are probably already aware.

@Ika SargeantYes, its a very much talked about, I know in Reston there really isn't a need over here but I do know in falls church for example thats where alot of travel nurses live so Rental Arbitrage would be successful over there but there's not enough data over there so I haven't been investing my time in researching because of the lack of data but I'm going to call the Fairfax Nova hospital and get more information from them this week to see if they do contracts with corporations to send agency nurses to properties but that will be later. 

Just starting out in Nova Scotia.