I've never heard money/profit described as cute, so it's not important.The most important thing you mentioned, was the rent potential and ARV. 

You obviously don't get the tax benefits of real estate, but if you're just looking for "returns", then lending your money out could be advantageous for your goal.

And she's hardly saving money if she's using an electric space heater as the only source.

The math for investing was pretty obvious to everybody that it would be hard to lose money by buying a home for 50% to 70% of the rebuild cost.

you may have to save up until you have enough money to do so - down payment, closing costs, reserves, etc.House Hacking: What Is It, How to Start, and Strategies for Successit's a more powerful way to get started. 

They are worth the money for a good hot tub that is mentioned all the time in reviews and doesn't have a ton of issues.

Driving relevant traffic to both a website and socials is hard without throwing some money behind it.

But now I'm thinking of renting the whole house and getting a cheap apartment to save even more money.

I've had tax companies lie to me about this and I ended up wasting money on unnecessary entities.

Risk goes hand in hand with the amount of money you stand to make.