I feel like my best option is to continue saving until I have around $200K to purchase a property in cash.

“ show by calling the authorities or investigating .. not when Chaz bono will be dancing tonight!” 

You may as well run the airbnb yourself.You should also investigate whether airbnb is legal in your area and whether th eadditional traffic will result in neighbour complaints.

I think the best place for you to start is to continue to educate yourself through the different programs/blogs/articles on the BP site relating to house hacking, including the different financing methods (e.g.

I do not work right now and spend about 12 hours a day, 7 days per week, on learning about real estate investing with a current dream of being able to walk again someday, work,  and to contribute to my family again.I do not know why this happened but I will continue on. 

(I have about 3k liquid cash, and a 10k Roth IRA, no debts, monthly expense to income ratio of ~.31)I can either go the slow route, get a W2 job, get some decent W2 income, save as much as possible and continue learning for the next year before 'starting' or, I can seek private lenders to accelerate this plan.  

Of course this won’t continue and once I have repairs and vacancy that average yearly return will average down.

Most of my skip tracing in the past had been for Private Investigators and Buy Here Pay Here Car Lots. 

Seems to be difficult to do this and I can understand why, the loan would be for about 27K, the current rate is 6.7%, is this a good rate right now, should I just keep it and continue paying it down?

I see house hacking as a way to continue to build my capital, allowing myself to purchase a second property faster.