It’s been a practical way to give my content the initial push it needed.

It's common practice in Europe, Canada, Australia but almost unheard of here in the US.

Specifically, I’m interested in house hacking as a way to begin practicing real estate after I graduate from college.Can anyone share some learning directions, tips, or experiences?

And the numbers are pretty good on the projects I've looked at. these are the very recent regulation that's from what I read, it makes more sense to add ADU into small MF.

One lender I have spoken with stated that the DCSR loans are not regulated. 

If you catch these at the pre-foreclosure stage as slow pays or initially in default all the better as the bank has less in collection expense.You can still work out a discount but even buying at the payoff it can be profitable depending on the property value.You can practically force a lender to sell as it can fully indemnify them as a full payoff as demanded, continuing with a foreclosure becomes a rather vengeful act by the bank to punish a borrower, they don't want to go there.

I’m an CPA working in the audit practice and dreaming about starting a real estate investment path for me an my family.

Those enormous tenant buyout amounts were feasible before the 2019 rent regulation act. 

These carriers are not profitable in CA and CA laws and regulations do not make it easy to mitigate these financial struggles. 

One of the concerns would be, how long would this last until regulations catch on?