I would never recommend buying property as an investment anymore
Yeah, as a homeowner myself... investment properties feel like a fuckin sham. Seriously. My wife is in insurance and there's basically nowhere on earth that will give you insurance for if a tenant decides to just trash your home - so every single 'investment property' is a time-bomb. One bad tenant and, well, hope you were in the game long enough to completely buy a new house because nobody's paying insurance for tenant vandalism.
But, as a homeowner that lives in the home I bought - fuck renting. It's such a pain in the dick to have to cater to some other jerk's whims about when I put up a shelf or what colour a room is... or worse, what asshole is sharing a wall with me (in the case of townhomes/apartments).
We had one neighbour downstairs when I was a renter that set their apartment on fire and that's the last goddamn time I'm living next to someone else.
The only idiot burning my house down will be me (or one of my family members) thank you very much, LOL.
There's a lot of freedom to living in a house you own, it has a ton of advantages and generally when you want to move on it's going to be a net profit when you sell. But it is a lot of work, and the banks do take a fuckin' chunk out of ya. I'm glad we got our 5 year fixed locked in at 2.9%, because a year later 5% was "good" and 5% of 380k is... well, you already did that math basically. It's not fun.