Institutional lenders will look at your non/short employement as a negative. 

What Are there creative strategies investors are using to offset those negative cash flows? 

I didn't think it is necessarily a bad thing, just is more of a sales strategy than anything else.why do you think that the concept of investing in real estate with 0 money is an "idea" instead of a real thing. 

All of these are legitimate tax concepts.

That HE loan would make you cash flow negative on the first property, especially considering you are not even factoring in any repairs, maintenance, vacancy or management.

I found one who's strategies made sense, 10 years later my wife and I have been financial free for about 5 years now by leveraging the concept of house hacking. 

But they have NEGATIVE CASHFLOW, until the day you quit investing.

Because I live in a neighborhood that has no crime but it shows up as very high crime because we had two neighbors who would call the cops over each others dogs barking so it lit it up to show it as negative…

Just remember: most negative reviews are written by problematic tenants.

Their videos, webinars and web content have been a huge help in presenting what the concept of shared ownership looks like in real life.