When the ROE is significantly smaller than my CoC return (based on initial investment) I know it's time to make a move to increase the velocity of the money.

That way, they don't waste their money if they know they will fail.

Hard Money finance, with about $5k of my own funds going into some over-budget costs.

This is because those who househacked actually pulled the trigger and started to gain experience while those looking for strictly an investment were too focused on numbers and returns to get their hand and feet wet.You can put little money down and take advantage of favorable rates. its a no brainer IMO 

I was drawn to real estate as a way of investing money I have saved up (around $130K with additional funds to leverage out of a 401K if needed), and potentially creating reliable cash flow over the next 10 years. 

Overthinking doesn’t make you money.

They don’t spend money though 🤓 In 2021, AirBNB spend just over 1.1b dollar on marketing.

An example of this would be mixing your personal money and LLC money in the same bank account.3.

That’s the lowest hanging fruit in my opinion. leverage the lenders money and have great cash on cash returns… move out after a year and then repeat the process.

With Airbnb prices rising, we loved the idea of investing in a few different small apartments scattered around the world so we would have a virtually free place to stay, and when we were not there we would make money off of sites like Booking and Airbnb.