I am 24 y/o and live in Fairfield County, CT looking to buy my first property...likely house hacking a multi-family.

I think if you can nail that down you will be able to find a market easier.As a buy and hold investor some of the things that were important to me when deciding on a market were landlord tenant laws, price to rent ratio, housing demand, ability to build a team, large population 500K plus, multi-family availability and some other factors.take the process step by step and you will be fine. 

With actual cash, you just transfer it. yes, but you can still bid with lender approval - without appraisal contingency - you send in deal (app), it gets approved by lender its functionally the same as cash (except in true lightning speed situations where there is a quick auction with little time to prep but thats generally pretty rare I'd think)Right, but that's not cash or functionally the same as cash because the lender can change the terms at the last minute, as often happens with less experienced hard money lenders.

I actually have some friends that use Stessa or other tools to do the lease signing, etc. because that is what they are used to, but choose to do rent collection and all of their transaction management in Baselane because it is so user friendly and really prepares you for reporting and tax season.

You may also want to consider purchasing multi-unit properties and live in one of the units.

People who want to do multi-family deals of all sizes but I have yet to meet anyone who have similar ambitions all-be-it this is my first post as such.

Hi BiggerPockets Community,I’m Alex Banegas, an ambitious multi-family investor passionate about creating wealth through real estate.

I own a multi-family house that was converted from a single family, therefore, there is only one gas meter.

So bye-bye all the Brrr's and Multi's and what not, we need SIMPLE, right, a good simple SOLID base-hit, right. 

I'm most interested in Single-Family or Multi-Family Homes with the intention of having Mid or Long-Term rentals (although I am not opposed to Short-Term either).