Private (hard) money might help with renovation but will be pricey.

That’s great advice Taz, I’m currently working on saving enough money to get started, house hacking is hard for me at the moment because I just bought a house 2 years ago, I would have to sell my house(which is in a great neighborhood great location) and use that money to fund the duplex which isn’t totally out of the question, I would like to keep the house if possible but also would like to get real estate investing more.

These operators totally bungled the deal and operation but still made money due to the market.2.

But even to this day the money is always the winner not me.. thats how you raise significant capital ..

It seems not the best way to spend money.

I would like to put the money into purchasing another investment property.

He's an educator and does make money selling education, but like most of the others doing this, he began by doing deals.

They reversed the transaction initiated by the hacker and I can withdraw the money from my account.

Going direct instead of having a GC do the work will save you money too since that GC will put a percentage on top of work. 

Value your money more.