I put together a spreadsheet here to help potential house hackers quickly analyze whether or not a property qualifies.

Gene Hacker, wow...that is dedication!

Gene Hacker You made an interesting point.

So getting a response from you about your situation makes me feel even better about my decision. these house-hackers on YouTube be talking about how their tenant covers everything PLUS they’re making profit, but that just doesn’t seem realistic in this market lol. 

For real estate I think it's totally worth it to just get the wholesale hacker build for it.

For example "I helped house hackers buy homes" is much different conversation from "I am house hacking or did house hack myself and now I share what worked for me with my clients"  I think the fastest way to learn is simply repeating successes of those before you. 

If Mint is hacked, then it seems that the hackers would then have everything they need to conduct transfers from every single one of my accounts.Is there some method that these companies use to keep that from being possible?

. $490k down payment is slightly more of a down payment than most house hackers want.

I put together a spreadsheet here to help potential house hackers quickly analyze whether or not a property qualifies.

Here are a couple things you can do if you want to get into real estate investing (now this is if you move to AZ, I don't know other markets):1) you can become a house hacker, you put a down payment on a duplex, triplex or fourplex you live in one and you rent the others that way you can be mortgage free or at least pay very little on the mortgage because the tenants will pay most of it (just depending on what you get and how much you put down) than with the extra money you save you can use it for your next investment.If you want to build wealth in this field you need to be open minded and see the potential so you want to get outdated properties so you can remodel to increase that value/equity of the property.