That’s great advice Taz, I’m currently working on saving enough money to get started, house hacking is hard for me at the moment because I just bought a house 2 years ago, I would have to sell my house(which is in a great neighborhood great location) and use that money to fund the duplex which isn’t totally out of the question, I would like to keep the house if possible but also would like to get real estate investing more.

Then have someone there do it for me!

of the "great photo" examples having calendars that are wiiiiiiide open, with barely a booking on them.Fair enough, I pulled these from first page results of nation wide searches (it was skewed SE for me because I mainly look in those areas) so they obviously rank very high on the algorithm.

I’ve done both to grow from 2 paid off STR and now have 29 SFR by using equity that was sitting there doing absolutely nothing for me to buy more and more with 20% down.

:BTC is up 1800% for me so far in 8 months.

for me. 

You can talk to the bank about a loan; however, my bet is they will want some form of contract and scope of work and will only pay him at set milestones.

For me and my goals, I focus on long-term investing in residential single-family homes in Florida and Georgia.

They will issue an IRS Form 1099 in January, reporting your total taxable income to you and the IRS.

Would probably be better that I buy from a builder, I just find it less appealing buying at retail when I'm looking for cash flow...I'm spoiled from having a $1000+ cash flowing property already, so if I'm not hitting that number, it's not going to work for me.