I’m housing hacking for the first year so trying to get creative with my side of the duplex.

Know what everything costs, be ready to jump as soon as you spot a deal, and be creative enough to make it look good. 

Do anything more 'creative,' like 100% leverage, and you'll be substantially negative.

For commercial courses, I would recommend in this order1 Scott Scheil2 Dave Lindahl 3 Ron LeGrand (not sure if you can even buy this one anymore) Each of these courses cover locating, evaluating, and financing commercial property with creative options. 

The real work does come in with driving around like you mentioned, maybe being creative and showing properties they may not have thought of, and articulating different ways to offer on a property, just to name a few items.

Looking to the BP community for creative ways to boost NOI.

Beginning investors should not:-engage in creative financing-invest with entirely borrowed money

What creative financing strategies have you already explored, and how successful were they in helping you close deals?

Anyone able to help me get creative and squeeze out some money from this note without selling it all or partial?

I wanted to ask and start a conversation about what additional/creative ways people have used to increase rental income or ROI on a property as a whole (such as ADU, converting garages, Airbnb, certain high ROI rehabs).