I have had a hard time getting started and am anxious to get my first deal.

I found it to be hard to use Titan when I was in the system.

Perhaps that isn't what you asked, but that's my advice that I learned the hard way.

That said, even with conservative rental income estimates, my living expenses would eventually drop to several hundred dollars less than what I’m currently paying in rent once the house hack starts generating income.I do have cash reserves to weather some rough patches, but the idea of pushing my budget this hard makes me uneasy.

Base your decisions on hard facts only and maintain a paper trail. 

Let’s take a look at some hard truths that many people overlook.### 1.

I have a lot of personal experience with BRRRR—both from building my own rental portfolio here in Memphis, TN and from helping both local and out-of-state investors successfully scale their portfolios using this strategy.One of the biggest advantages I’ve been able to offer my clients is structuring deals with hard money lenders in a way that allows them to acquire properties with less than $10,000 out of pocket in most cases which results them in massive cash on cash returns!

It's hard to find a cash flowing rental in this area, but paying all cash certainly helps!

Although I have a hard time believing his proposal would include investors.  

You mentioned dents and those are hard to hammer out or fill.