The only disadvantage is that you would pay the HELOC payment to buy time to see what happens. 

Hire a realtor and pay them to provide you with recently sold rental comparables.

My approach now would be to focus on real estate investing and build a portfolio that pays for as much additional education as one desires. 

This is not a political post, but I can guarantee the first comment is, "I don't pay attention to climate when investing."

Time is money, sure, anyone can close in 14 days -- and pay for it for years to come.

I would get very close to breakeven, but you are still living for practically free (not counting repairs, maintenance, and management) while paying down the mortgage on a monthly basis.I have never purchased a new property to house hack, but I would run the numbers like any other investment property.

.- Yeah so Civil Code section 5715 applies to a situation where the homeowner is trying to pay off the debt to the HOA and redeem his / her interest in the property.  

They're fine paying an extra deposit and extra pet fee.

i  would say househacking in expensive area is the best strategy.I got all tenants paying my mortgage , i never met them and they made the house more secured as well because there's always people in the house. 

Sales rep who finds the buyer and get's the down payment to secure the sale gets 20% of the fee.I tried this model when hiring reps and realized it didn't work since I was paying for all the overhead, supplying leads (like you) and the reps were not staying on top of the lead calls.