I’m sure you already know this but house hacking vs using that money as a pure investment can yield dramatically different results.

I'm investigating the Cincinatti real estate market and would like to pay the city a visit in the next few weeks looking to build a network , to look at a few smaller multi-family properties and in general understand the city better than pure Internet search allows.I was wondering if perhaps a real estate agent from Cincinatti that's also reading this forum would be willing to help me out with learning about the market and looking at properties.

Consider AI and institutional investors, regulation changes as well, it is possible for strategies used today to be highly illegal in the future.We all have hind sight, students today will be in a purely global economy, what we did in the past is not very "forward thinking".In fact, I'd go further for him to consider Engineering at A&M, Engineering and Law at Purdue!

The cracks in the walls are purely cosmetic.

Houses ends up selling higher then bidding price due to novice bidders and get relisted or offered to other bidders purely at the discretion of seller.

You will quickly run out of money if you purely buy & hold. 

Hard money is more geared toward people who are fixing/flipping or fixing/refinancing into a purely rental property.

Are you talking about purely investment? 

This is real estate in its pure ACTION.

Even though we always tell tenants, you would think it would be obvious that they were no longer operational ... but apparently not.We have it written into our lease that the fireplaces are purely ornamental and should the tenant attempt to use the fireplace, it will be cause for eviction and they will be liable for any and all damages.