At one point, this bear got into the dumpster 5 nights in row requiring us to clean the area each morning. 

A lot of gurus will have you believe wholesaling is easy and you can make a ton of money doing it with very little effort.

Welcome to BP, you will find a ton of great resources to your questions on here.

The benefit to these is you get your foot into the door without a ton of capital and as time goes you can move out and cashflow on the property.

I can's imagine a situation where all 4 tenants have elected to hand wash their clothes and use the dryer (there is no utility sink in the laundry room).Can you think of any reasons why the dryer would be used that much more/washer used that much less?...

A new person moves in and she says the upstairs neighbors are creating a ton of noise.

Once you get a house hack you will learn a ton and be able to do it again

This means I get a ton of applications but Zillow also makes it easy to deny and sends them the denial letter which is fantastic in my opinion.

Do you stay at the sketchy looking log cabin for 300/night or do you go for the super well done cabin with a pool table, sauna and hot tub for 450/night - oh and they have a ton of reviews and listed as a super host.if you want to have steady cash flow and steady returns to INVEST into real estate then ditch the idea of MTR and STR and get a LTR in a decent areaIf you want to own a business than go for the STR or MTR model.

Each persons ability to take advantage of opportunities and/or incentives will be unique.Overall you want the find the highest and best use of your cash that delivers the fastest return.If applicable to an owner occupant purchase, the best use of funds would be to accomplish getting down payment assistance, utilize a 203k or HomeStyle loan (to force the equity), and to house hack.