This allowed me to reverse engineer what price house I needed to buy in order to cash flow. 

This works well for specialized fields, i.e. finance, engineering, math, etc.

I'm lucky enough to have a remote job as a software engineer.

This deal was brought to our attention by a civil engineer who has worked on projects with us off and on for 15 years.

Hi Jimmy,I started with turnkey remote rentals in 2009-2015 while working my engineering W2 job.

Have an idea of what level of finishes you'd like, what your break even point would be for monthly income, and reverse engineer the numbers to see if the location you are looking into is viable.  

The takeaway from a practical stand point is that because the Financial Engineers at the Fed will probably keep the easy money coming which is great for folks like us who own assets it is terrible for society at large, the wealth gap, social unrest etc. 

They really kind of irked me back in the summer;  Akron passed a source of income law and I tried to rent to a very nice lady with a voucher but they won't tell you up front their algorithm for determining "rent reasonableness" and they deemed me unreasonable for the market after d*cking around for 2 weeks. 

So, they called out a structural engineer.

First step is to make sure you understand what the City will allow and then hire an engineer/architect team to put plans together for you and help with permitting, if needed.