My goal is to flip 5 properties this year and then get into buy & hold using the BRRRR strategy, and finally end up building my own vacation rentals (my ultimate goal).I'm looking to buy a duplex or triplex and do the famous "house hacking" I wish I would have known about when I bought my first home.

You've misunderstood.

I misunderstood about the people cleaning up the house.

@Andy Plattner, you probably know this and I misunderstood your post, but that local sales tax includes the state tax.  

Maybe I misunderstood the OP.

It's important you understand this and also recognize that it has almost nothing to do with owner occupancy -- easily the most misunderstood concept in private lending.We only loan locally and will never loan on a property we've never seen or to a borrower we haven't previously gotten to know even just a little.A few of us shared our processes in detail in this thread.

and as a coincidence, I just met a gentleman who leads African Safari's, and he told me he just took a very famous person, Robert Allen on a Safari.

I think you misunderstood my question.

I misunderstood what you were asking. 

Famous last words.