Mortgage rates would likely stay above 7%, keeping financing costs high and reducing affordability for buyers.Investors takeaway: Focus on off-market properties and motivated sellers where there’s more room for negotiation.

Focus on overall returns.2.

Metrics like 10-15% of ARV profit, COC, and the 70% rule all serve different purposes, helping you build expectations, safety margins, track leverage, and account for contractor turnaround times.In my opinion rather than overanalyzing numbers upfront, I would focus first on building strong deal flow.

But you have to remember that house hacking is such a powerful strategy that naturally it's gonna have a few obstacles

Seems that you are most focused on property taxes at the moment, but all of them really need to be evaluated for a complete picture. 

All good reading and listening, education is best and if you want to learn you have to ingest as much information as possible.I read many books that helped me, but my go-to is listeining to at least 2hrs of podcast with real examples per day.One very important things that "want-to-be" fails is to understand that real estate has many different specialities, so you have to focus your time in your real project.

I'd say visitors do usually use more power than you'd think but that does seem somewhat high.

The right opportunities come when you focus on solving problems, not forcing deals that don’t make sense.There are sellers out there ready and willing to sell at a price that works for both you and your buyers.

I was more focusing on 20-30 minute commutable distance with a good school district (for SFHs) and downtown for MFHs. 

I’m looking into the flipping market and trying to understand more about it since that’s what I want to focus on and do in my life.