All of these are legitimate tax concepts.

If you are limited to those areas for residency, and you choose to keep that job, you are going to have to either a) wait for a couple years and save up a heftier down-payment, b) change your strategy like you said and go for houses further away (do flips, STR or BRRR).Or, if you are sold on the house-hack concept, at some point you might have to look at a different job that allows you to move where house-hacking will work....

I found one who's strategies made sense, 10 years later my wife and I have been financial free for about 5 years now by leveraging the concept of house hacking. 

I didn't think it is necessarily a bad thing, just is more of a sales strategy than anything else.why do you think that the concept of investing in real estate with 0 money is an "idea" instead of a real thing. 

I have had people work for me for years under this concept and with some very few minor disagreements it has worked out very well, the money saved allowed us to do 3x the work than if we had gone the traditional route.

Their videos, webinars and web content have been a huge help in presenting what the concept of shared ownership looks like in real life.  

The bonds example was very helpful and made the concept much easier to grasp.

I am paying a bit over market rent for the high season but I'm fine with this because of the proof of concept of the Airbnbs that are near me in the neighborhood also it is my first Airbnb Arbitrage property beggers can't be choosers haha.

I recommend you contact Capital Concepts out of Las Colinas.

You could go either route but don't mix the two in concept as one is a mule and the other is a horse.And, the requirement that properties be listed for sale by a bank is a bank regulatory issue having nothing to do with the NAR, it ensures that the property is held for sale in a public market at its assumed fair market value.