Your financial planner presumably considered your busy schedule, risk tolerance, skill set, and goals in recommending you avoid house hacking. 

We place their money within their appetite for risk tolerance. 

It will really depend on your personal preferences and tolerances.

And you there's actually a very wide spectrum ( and it depends on your personal risk tolerance, unique financial goals, unique financial situation etc. as far as what works for you.).The downside with passive is that someone has to be comfortable with turning over control to someone else.

Paying off debt vs investing vs renovating really depends upon your personal overall strategy and risk tolerance and where you are at in life.

The Philly region is a very interesting and diverse market and lots of opportunities that could work for you, depending on your resources, risk tolerance, goals. 

We all have our own unique goals, risk tolerance, and time commitment.

David Toler, that's a fantastic idea.

That is a personal preference on your risk tolerance.  

I agree with all of the previous posters or pointing out significant question marks about the deal you found.Since you asked how to do due diligence on deals, I'll give you my personal opinion.For vetting a syndication, different investors do it differently because every investor comes from a different financial situation and has different goals and risk tolerance.