Our current lender is offering us 170K cash out refi ( I will be researching this in a greater detail ).

I'm not sure why not - one of the great parts about real estate investing is that you can build a team around you for aspects you aren't as strong at or simply want to delegate to someone/expert and do the others yourself - look up "Core 4" for example - where you can have an agent, lender, manager, contractor all at once for your investments and can theoretically just let them do all the interactive work

Speak with lenders early to understand your borrowing power, and explore multifamily properties to maximize your house-hacking potential.

Review my post above and try again.  

Hard money lenders are much more like banks and come with many restrictions, requirements, due diligence, fees, etc.

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I'll work on reviewing my state laws & getting something like that into my lease. 

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Are you asking for a lender for the lady selling her home?  

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