Is this true? 

If it sounds too good to be true, then make sure that you take the necessary steps to ensure your own safety.

Have you ever been totally open and honest with a seller or agent and tell them you have no intention of buying the property and don't know the true buyer when you offer and won't tell them the price the true buyer will pay?

Congrats - do you ever think you'll expand a buy a true standalone STR of just happy with this current situation?

I think the reason for this that I have a true vacation rental.

If you look at true ROI (especially without any Govt tax help) It is an even bigger NO.

Quote from @Jonathan Greene: Quote from @James Hamling: Thing is @Jonathan Greene, your message, as true as it may be, comes across to a whole generation like that of the person giving away apples and tooth brushes for Halloween..... 

Everyone's obsessed with "off market deals" but a realtor who knows their stuff will be your true guide in the market.Secondly, I recommend asking those folks for good lenders, and also finding and connecting with other investors in the market (who have nothing to sell you). 

I always got the impression that he had a bad criminal record or never got his high school diploma/ GED equivalent or some other issue was preventing him from getting a license, because he was basically just brokering without a license but calling it consulting (I don't know any of that to be true for the record, that was just the impression that I got from his comments and might explain why he used a fake name?). 

Tell us some more about the house hack is it a true multi family or are you just rocking with roomates?