You could essentially find a home with low equity, pay for the closing costs and take-over a 2%-5% loan, saving you hundreds of dollars every month!

I've checked hundred of GP track record and I found In this industry, a high school drop out GP can beat PIMCO fund manager that has 999M AUM if the high school GP can do better underwriting and execution. 

Pedro charged $20/hour but we only needed him for a few hundred hours of work each year earning him approx $5,000-$7,000 extra per year

(I do not want to do AirBnb) So I'm okay with even paying a few hundred a month if its acting as a second home, something like house hacking light.

And you should have done the kitchen cabinets to the ceiling. 

New LVP flooring upstairs to replace all the carpet, new cabinets and countertops in the 2.5 bathrooms, new fiberglass shower in the guest bathroom, new walk in shower (tiled) in the master bathroom, next lights/sinks/faucets/toilets/etc in all bathrooms, new paint on kitchen cabinets, new pulls on kitchen cabinets, new ceiling fans throughout, and fresh paint throughout.

Do most people have hundreds of thousands of $$ just lying around waiting for these things to happen?

But They don't require you to be a part of the larger organization and spend hundreds of dollars on top of MLS dues for NAR dues (which may not go up in 2024 but you bet they are going up in 2025 to pay off this $400M). 

I advise clients NOT to buy empty lots, even ones right next to their properties and even if you're only paying a couple hundred bucks.The logic is pretty simple.

We have bought hundreds of loans the past several years, you cannot buy them from a MBS, they have to be removed from the security (typically due to non performing), or they did not qualify to be securitized (scratch and dent).