In terms of value house hacking plays near Scottsdale, I'd recommend west Mesa, mid-town Phoenix, or Tempe in that order.

@Denise Supplee I’m looking to start in the mid-west I’m from Ohio

We are also starting to get August bookings from the stargazers who come for the meteor showers in August.The high season in the California High Desert starts in October and ends in mid-May and the low season is mid-may to October.Feel free to reach out with more specific questions.

To the west is also popular, like Pooler, but I'm not familiar with regulations.You could do Mid-Term Rentals, 30+ day anywhere for now.You could house hack and from what I understand, there is no restriction if the unit is owner occupied in some form.

Does anyone know what the per square foot cost is to build new single family homes either builder-grade or mid-grade for the Northeast Florida/Jacksonville market? 

As a caveat, yes, they are older (mid 70's), and they want to continue to live there for as long as possible, but, sadly a time will come when that is no longer possible, Would a walk-in tub/shower be a 'renting deterrent' in the future? 

I’m most interested in building a portfolio of single-family rentals I can hold for the long run.Current Situation:My wife and I are in our mid-30s, both W2 employees with a combined income around $150K.

We worked on it, seems like forever but we took days off work and worked every weekend 12-15hrs a day until we had it ready about mid-July.

Oregon WA.. there was a huge boom in the post war 50's to 60s  ergo they made the movie Glen Garry Glenn Ross.. were developers really marketed this stuff.. also its what created Florida.just look at Lehigh Acres  300k lots platted recorded roads pushed through no homes.. those lots are traded still to this day back and forth up and down just talk to @John Thedford  he lives there.and literally every state and county has some land developments that never built out.. my first ten years in real estate from 18 years old to about 28 that's all I did was sell land.. land in those days 1975 to 1985  was the low value rental of today that is so popular in the mid west.. by 1980 houses in Cupertino were I lived were already north of 100 to 150k and by 85 were 500k.. so its the exact same sentiment you see on BP daily...

initially this was going to be a flip but the interest rate environment changed mid process.