By being patient and disciplined, you've been able to scale up to properties you once thought were out of reach.Your version of house hacking, combined with strategically using your profits and capital to reinvest, shows how incremental steps can lead to bigger opportunities over time.

Most importantly be patient, you are 17 :)

If you find something, go hard money and then spend the next few months re-leveraging the existing debt.You can have your cake and eat it too, just be patient my friend. 

I'll echo what @Anthony Vicino said: If you're not willing to be patient and put in the hard work, you aren't going to be successful no matter which coaching program you're in.

If Wall Street is the mechanism to transfer wealth from the foolish to the patient....

My thoughts: be patient, save up money, put yourself in a great financial position, and then buy.

@Leo Gregoire20 years ago it was over leverageTen year ago it was Over renovated properties in areas that did not need to have upgraded finishes.Today it’s being patient.

In retrospect, I wish I had been a bit more patient and pursued a multi-family option to take advantage of house hacking.As a newcomer to this field, I’ve been following the BiggerPockets forums and podcast for quite some time now.

I am very forgiving and patient but OneRent managed to bring out the bad side of me.

Please be patient if I am wrong in any of my assumptions.I own a home in Rotonda West, FL.