Also, I am considering alternative financing options (beyond Hard Money).

However, an easier option would be to use a bridge loan to help with acquisition and rehab financing if the property needs some work.

@Nate MarroquinYou're in a great position to house hack before your income increases, and you have multiple financing options to make it work.

There are tons of options out there. 

Great option for residential and mixed-use real estate investors! 

For an auction.com purchase in Washington you have 2 options. 

There are plenty of resources online including anderson youtube channel, few other sources are :https://wcginc.com/kb/ and https://wcginc.com/fee-structu... -- They have fixed fee structure to compare with anderson advisors without any blatant selling tactics https://www.kbkg.com/" class="redactor-autoparser-object">https://www.kbkg.com/https://go.empiretaxusa.com/61...If you attend any tax-wise or other 3 day events with anderson which costs $197 + travel expenses you will get enough knowledge on how they operate and you should be able to understand what LLC structure is beneficial, also they have a large collection of online videos with plentiful of information on youtube and tax tuesday webinars.

@German Fernandez Love those options!

With the duplex, you can do both rental options.  

Check out https://legaltemplates.net/form/lease-agreement/termination/...They have more options.