No, just 25 yrs of experience being involved in literally thousands of deals and watching realtors do things the wrong way or take shortcuts, loosing deal after deal for my borrowers is what has taught me what works best.Unfortunately, down here in FL, everybody and their mother has had or has a real estate lic. and too many think or lead their clients to think they know a lot more than they really do. 

On the other hand if you wholesale it and get it under contract for $60K and assign it for a $5K fee, then you take a short cut to getting to your $5K profit, but you miss the opportunity to learn the rehab part.As has been said before, verify your numbers...trust no one's numbers but your own, assume nothing.

The Tax Court is on to BS games and shortcuts.

-bought for 180K-conservative value today 250K (potential net from sale - 50K)-conservative potential rent - 2000 / mo (potential net monthly cashflow - $800 /mo-currently a small pocket neighborhood with no through streets that feeds into a great elementary school and good middle-high school "Problems:"-our street, currently a dead end is about to become a through street that will become a major shortcut for another 300 or so house development to our West to get to the highway and the grocery store.

There are no shortcuts and honestly, you are not going to follow the advice in the beginning anyway.

Developer likely purchased land wrong and paid too much and then tried to take short cuts to make the project work.

Dates got pushed, over budget, too many shortcuts by the workers which required redoing a lot.

“House - hacking” is what everyone says hat they’d do first if they could start over again, so ... you’re onto something - but there’s no short cuts - one foot in front of the other - study up and best of luck.

HG TV uses it as a way of shortcutting time, money and effort by doing cabinet hacks, or built-in hacks or whatever. 

Leverage is a shortcut to acquisition and speeds your wealthy accumulation.Third option is what I would do.