You might be biting off more than you can chew.

I also thought about a hard money fix and flip but this being my first ANYTHING into real estate I don't want to bite off more than I can chew.

I don't want to bight off more than I can chew on the fist deal :p.

But after we had tenants whose various dogs ate my porch swing, the plug off a window air conditioner (haven't a clue why the dog didn't fry himself on that one), dug holes in carpets down to the subfloor, ate the bottom off a closet door, chewed open a door and got under the house in the summer heat to stay cool and crushed a duct pipe and (in one case) were kept under the house so I got to clean feces and urine out from under there on my hands and knees....we rethought our  idea of the need for a pet fee.Gail

The trick to house hacking is not biting off more than you can chew, gut the whole place and you'll live in misery.

I could run 5-10 projects at a time with no problems, multiple times, with an average of 10% less contract days and ALWAYS under budget, if you hired a contractor that is substandard or eating more than what he could chew, guess who picked the contractor?

You're going to get chewed up by turnover, vacancy, and make ready.

You know, when you walk out the back door the dogs try to chew through the fence to get to you!

He basically confessed to me that he bit off more than he could chew.

Lack of experience may be a factor as well so you don't bite off more than you can chew so to speak the first time around.