People selling courses often use newbies as ants so they save time in the case that the ant finds one deal out of 10,000 the course creator can partner with them on.

I have been pleased with it and not just tons of excellent info and resources, but great interaction along with accountability with the focus on taking action. 

Any bit if info would help.

you may find it beneficial to avoid paying lender fees over and over again, on 3 properties though if you go with a lender that doesn't charge a ton of junk fees then you'd save doing it separately. 

My main concern about actual house hacking for a few years in a row is that we don't want the kiddos to have to change schools once we relocate up there.I'm thinking about getting an appreciation-oriented duplex/triplex in a pricier market with good schools that we could stay in for several years, and saving for an actual cashflow property that'd we buy as an investment property instead of a house hack.

Quote from @Rajagopalarao Paidi: Is there anyway to minimize or avoid agent costs, I don't have much scope for profit if I pay agent costs, what options typically one has Do it FSBO if you want to save them and then hire a TC or company to do the work...

There is SOOOO much information out there about how to set up your entities and so much conflicting info.

So are you really saving anything?

You take a short class 30 minutes over the phone and once you finish this process you typically can save around 1% off your rate!

go to lots and lots of meetups.2. talk to those HMLs and find out what their terms are.3. save up enough so that you have a down payment, reserves, and also enough in cash for the hold period.