What we're struggling to understand is how to underwrite/estimate the paper losses that a MF would produce and IF this strategy is worth it from an income/tax savings perspective.

I’ve seen so many people struggle with this until they get the right kind of help.

Struggling, STRUGGLING to stay in top 50!

What I struggle with today is how to attack it.Option 1, which was my original plan, was to get control of a $1-2MM property using mostly borrowed and possibly silent investor funds.

@Alexander Phillipslike the others i am struggling because while i sympathize with you, none of this is really adding up...i'm also worried about what you putting "full trust" in your mentor means.sounds like you need to print a copy of your contract out, read it, get out to the site in person, and sort this out. 

I been researching hard money lender, but struggling to find one that meet our needs.

Looking for advice of any kind here, but specifically I'm struggling to decide what I should be looking for in a first time house hack.

At the moment, capital is our biggest struggle.

Vacancy rate and market - if your market is struggling, and it can take up to an average of two months to rent out the place you have to factor in that that's two months of lost rent.

My biggest struggle right now is determining whether to buy a house outright with my HELOC and then refinance it in hopefully 6-12 months or do I use a smaller part of my HELOC for a down payment and try to get a traditional loan for the rest of the payment?