It’s been a wild ride—full of challenges, lessons, and a few big wins that made it all worth it.

Best place to find this type of funding is in a group where people lend in this fashion which is essentially unsecured /100% financingyou will not find many to do this except those that are brainwashed by gurus who think it's a great idea

You want a second home, there's value add opportunity, a way to hang on and ride appreciation. 

You may also have to pay a broker to rent it, when usually the tenants cover that during peak rental season (May-July for 9/1 leases).Good thing is once it's rented you should almost never have vacancy if you're mindful of re-listing it in a timely fashion.

Every once in awhile here on BiggerPockets a product like this makes an appearance and gets pumped up very aggressively, and the unfortunate thing is that it makes an impression on folks that are new to investing or may not have much of a financial background.Any seasoned lender will tell you that one of the most basic tenets of lending is that your loan must be secured or collateralized in some fashion.

You can buy a house that need lots of work that's another way, do as much work as possible be the project manager how ever you can help to save money .BIG pockets can jump in on a MLS ride it out .

It's fashionable - and tempting - to outsource tax research to AI.

@Christopher Mooney - I house-hack a 2 Unit Building in Bayridge Brooklyn which is a 45 minute subway ride to Manhattan Wall Street Financial District (a 7 mile drive).

If $50 is make or break for your real estate investing, you are in for a wild ride. :-) 

I do, however, see you regularly posting regularly on LinkedIn, in a similar fashion to your posts last year here on BiggerPockets.Normally, this would be an issue that I'd move on from and not waste my time on.