It’s fantastic to see your passion for BRRRR, mid-term rentals, and money lending—those are excellent strategies to build a diversified and thriving real estate portfolio.

This balanced approach meets your financial goals, diversifies risk, and aligns with your preference for conservative real estate investments.This post does not create a CPA-Client relationship.

Excited about learning from those doing it at a much higher level than me, and networking and educational opportunities seem excellent as well!

We have quite a few resources here such as our STR Calculator, STR Newsletter, and our bookstore which has "Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth" that is excellent. 

The best deals definitely do not come from wholesalers, they come from relationships.

In many cases, it takes a few years to really start seeing any appreciable cash flow, but it is the relationships we make, the learning and overcoming challenges and obstacles every day that is the true rewards in this business.

Budget $15-$20k for a rewire.To take it a step further, if you build a relationship with your subcontractors they may even teach you how they estimate so you can repeatedly build a robust estimate completely on your own.Excluded from the above is foundation issues & outages in the framing (often caused by foundation issues).

Even if the numbers look good, you will get tons of competition that eventually will drive the price off your excel sheets.

From there, I would like to explore house hacking/the BRRR strategy, but I know there are rules, regulations, and connections I will need to make all this happen.If anyone is willing to have a conversation or thinks they could use my help in bettering their real estate business in return for some advice, I would love to at the very least create some new relationships. 

I would not overthink this, but would start by building a solid professional relationship with your tenants.