In that unfortunately (but potential) situation, you end up having to bring in another contractor (who will get paid), and then still have an equity obligation to your friend.In my experience, partnering with a contractor who brings nothing to the table other than their contracting skills is a situation where the investor has a whole lot to lose and not a lot to gain.

Large companies do this with reverse mortgages, but I think it would be much more difficult for a smaller investor, because you could be waiting 20 years or more before you acquired the property, while paying for it the whole time.

Flat roofs have other issues, they always eventually leak and can puddle up large bodies of water for mosquitoes to breed.

Congratulations on achieving the position in life you have already achieved.

However, just the cash flow on these properties, should make little baby properties, which will continue to multiply over the next 20 years into a colony of properties, thus achieving my goals..  

If I don't end up flying out do you have any advice for achieving the same goal?

The agent will have a whole team you can tie into which will shorten your learning curve dramatically!

That would void the 1031 and make the whole thing taxable.

Unfortunately unlike other people I don’t have anyone to co-sign for me for any of these investment opportunities I could take and my father lives in New York City, he doesn’t like the idea of me getting a property, he just thinks I should get an IT job and pay rent that’s what I went to school for all these years but it hasn’t been easy getting a job so now I’m taking into account that I could Uber and I can make atleast 300-400 a weekend but I plan to do it everyday to get extra cash in, I’m so hungry to become successful I won’t ever give up, instead of saying I can’t do it, I’m just trying to find ways to do it, like most successful people and I know it isn’t going to be easy and I’m living way below my means, my favorite meal is pack ramen now cause it’s the cheapest haha.Anyways my question is in my current situation what would you advice me to do to be able to achieving owning a MF property to do the house hack with FHA loan, can Ubering be use to qualify for me for the FHA loan?

If the market increases, it will be a tailwind and allow you to achieve that down payment quicker.