For example, maybe Boise doesn’t have great numbers on rentals but has good flip opportunities.Lastly what do folks think about buying a house we want to live in eventually, renting it for a few years to offset the mortgage, and down the road once we build up some equity using that to buy rentals.

As-is most of the investors I know are picking up properties at 1% rent to value in these areas, but if you're willing to do a light cosmetic upgrade, or convert a garage and get approved for section 8 a 1.5% goal isn't too wild! 

Convert to duplex.

That will allow you to eventually move in to the sfr of your dreams.

But it was unclear if this only referred to converting a Roth IRA.I will be contacting potential account professionals this week, but finding out more about this issue would be helpful.  

You can calculate this by the following formula:(Projected Potential Rent - Current Potential Rent) / Cost of Renovation.Projected potential rent would be the annual gross rental income for the building if you converted it to 8 units.

Do you folks believe rent may go up eventually?

Deja,I don't think that being young and female are a detriment to wholesaling, but not having the knowledge is...The chances that someone else is going to let you shadow them is slim, being that you will eventually be their competitor...The trick is finding the deals... that is going to be very difficult now.

I do plan on eventually renting it back out.

I have had many clients over the years buy house hack deals and almost all of them eventually gravitate to neighborhoods they are comfortable in as opposed to areas where the paper numbers may be better in a worse neighborhood.