Because they aren't traditional tenants in the sense with a 1 year lease and to determine fit for the house, I like to start everyone on 2-4 month leases and see how they perform.

Creative financing: Explore seller financing or subject-to deals for your next property, which often require less upfront cash and bypass traditional lending limits.You’re on the right track thinking long-term—house hacking and leveraging your duplex are great moves.

I see you mentioned the BRRR method, here's a nice breakdown of it here on Bigger Pockets.   

That method will increase your ROE significantly more.Also read the BP book on BRRRR investing.

I recommend an electronic payment method.

Hello,I recently transferred my traditional IRA into a SDIRA / checkbook LLC account and am working on closing on my 1st investment property.

Traditional lender financing with 30-year fixed loan and 25% downpayment.

Perhaps they invited Jerryll based on his extensive SEO knowledge and did not look into his questionable marketing methods and extremely high course pricing at $5800 and $19,800. 

When it corrects there are typically just a greater amount of opportunity especially when there was a large run up to the correction by those who did not follow traditional risk mitigation measures when investing.

I will get a lot of fun out of it, plus make money now and off their future efforts which I will not be involved with, other than as a Passive recipient.Cost- if you did traditional logging and sawmilling operations, you would need about $3,000,000 of equipment on the cheap to start out.