LLC are favorite protection instruments of course and ideally per property and state specific.

If you’re looking for speed, flexibility, and a customized solution for your investment, private money lending is a great choice, even if the interest rate is higher.

@Dave Harlan They have an amazing product but your better off using a mortgage broker with a great reputation for customer service because they offer wholesale pricing advantages to their brokers and the only complaints I've ever heard about them have come from service issues on the retail side.

Generally when I talk to my customers looking to buy a property each year FHA usually gets in the way with one or more of its overlays and restrictions.

Taking a boiler plate contract is not going to be helpful as they're typically customized to people's needs/wants.

Yes, House Hacking seems like the most ideal option when considering my first investment (open to other forms of ownership, such as live-in flips as well).

In this IDEAL situation the savings is minimal.  

Having the GC or someone else upload photos/video after each stage would be ideal.

Ideally broken down to the city at bare minimum, but even neighborhoods or zip codes would be even better. 

That being said, 20% down would be ideal to make the rate and pricing reasonable.