If the class of neighborhood is C or D, this will be more difficult/ In terms of getting better bang for your buck, usually the strategy would be to buy a little beatdown home in a nice neighborhood, as this tends to get you a higher value once you put a bit of work in.

Every time I have analyzed a short term opportunity, the cash flow tends to be close to the same as a traditional rental.

While specific neighborhood recommendations can vary based on current market conditions, areas close to universities, medical centers, and business districts tend to have strong rental demand.

When it comes to Steadily you must read all the fine print, since they tend to give STR owners a policy that explicitly say STR stays are excluded.

I actually started flipping with little money and then transitioned to wholesaling because my goal is to build an active business in real estate, and for me, wholesaling was and is more scalable and profitable than flipping.People tend to think wholesaling is easy based on how gurus portray it online, but it's not.

I heavily attract a lot of agents to EXP so I tend to stay on top of what's happening amongst other brokerages if you are looking at the numbers around EXP for flipping homes depending on how many flips you do per year it may look more attractive at other brokerages short term (depends on the amount of flips, price point, etc). 

New wholesalers tend to analyze all properties the same without taking into account how small the pool of buyers is in those areas.

...if the vacancies are frequent or extended, it can be a big expense, so I analyze this thoroughly.As for house-hacking specific costs, there are things like furniture/appliances/decor for the common areas of the house, costs of screening applicants (like background checks), cost to advertise, the time and effort required to manage a house hack, etc.  ...although these expenses are worth consideration, they tend to be much smaller and almost inconsequential compared to the big capex expenses that can come with buying the wrong property (e.g.; you might spend a couple hundred bucks on tenant screening, but a new roof might cost $20k+).Back when I was house hacking regularly, one of the most significant "costs" was the cost of my time and effort to acquire tenants (which includes all the time and effort of posting ads, responding to inquiries, answering questions, doing viewings, screening applicants, managing tenants once they were in-place, etc.).

This is an integral part of doing deals, the wholesale community maybe push the numbers in their favor to make that deal happen, that is of course not okay, and the same thing is said for agents that say they can list a home for $20K more than the next realtor just to get that listing then ask for the price reduction later (this just happened to me).This is a company that I tend to hear more bad things about then good things and that is where the caution needs to be taken into real consideration and make sure you are doing with with people that are looking for a win-win, not a win-lose/sometimes win-win which can happen in real estate more often then not if a person is not looking out for themselves.

Conventional tends to be better in rates, but it's good to check as this is not always the case depending on your qualifications.