One thing to keep in mind is your personal goals and those of the broker, try to find one who's vision aligns with yours. 

See how they interact and get to know what their vision for the community is. 

For the last few months, i've been VERY eager to start my vision of becoming financially free through the house hacking method. 

Thank you everybody for your feedback, just putting my thoughts out there helps clear my vision a little bit. 

1) You cannot make others see your vision or have the same goals.

The real estate investors who have the vision right now and understand what is happening based on facts (instead of getting caught in negativity,) will be thriving even more than previously.

I try to stay super active in the REI community here locally, and there are a bunch of great meetups and events where you can really build your teams and turn the vision into reality.

Using the concepts from these books we do the following:We define our vision, core value & focus- At the beginning of the year we take a weekend and evaluate if we need to make any adjustments then we establish targets/goals and "Big Rocks" for the yearOnce per quarter we take a day or a weekend off and review/discuss our goals for the quarterOnce per week we shut down for 4 hours and discuss issuesThat's how we address what I think you call business needs.Regarding systems- For us, systems are not independent of business needs.

Depending on what you defined goal is will define the team needed to execute the vision.

My first goal is $5k cashflow per month, but my vision is to be able to totally match my job income (+benefits) and I would need significantly more to do that.