Team member agents get to eat at my table, and with that gain the knowledge and experience via osmosis and training sessions, gaining their own expertise in time, and for myself I gain time leverage power, the ability to service more clients than I could alone as a factor of 1.  

Id recommend learning how to do basic repairs or the costs of having a repair man come out for every little thing will eat your profit. 

Off-marketBig homebuyers like AH4R will eat up everything else.

But I really want to be involved in the real estate business and I feel like my house is eating most of my income.

So it's really two sides, look for those red flags but ALSO look for those Green-flags also, look to see who they are as a person, why are they doing it, are they passionate about what they are doing and guess what there is a passionate person about everything out there, my insurance guy LOVES insurance, lol, seems nutty to me but he absolutely lives, eats, breathes insurance.

Once I take my dog for a walk, play with him, do some cleaning, and sit down to eat dinner, I'm usually brain dead for the day!

On the other hand, we could easily eat the interest fees and refinance at 6 months.

Are they still eating out / ordering DoorDash?

The less closing costs you have to eat the more money stays in your pocket.

For house hackers that really want the best return I think this is a really phenomenal strategy if you know people who you trust enough not to eat your oreos ;).