There are much more qualified and experienced accountant here.

I have seen some experienced folks on here making themselves available to others’ questions, but when I messaged them, I didn’t hear back.

Then you will reverse engineer your financial structure to determine your allowable All-in costs should be.  

Originally I’m from northern VA but moved to Cincinnati about six years ago for my career as a design engineer in the aerospace industry.

An experienced agent who has vacation rentals of his own has a network of contacts you can use.

I'm an experienced investor (3 MF deals) with excellent financials and credit.

I've seen side-bar conversations taking place on posts when a new investor is asking a question about how to get started in something, where more experienced people feel the need to say things like "I love how everyone thinks wholesaling is so easy, it took me years to figure it out" or "Flips are a lot harder than they look, I don't know why people think they can just jump in" and blah blah blah.Seriously?

A house hack works for just about anybody, with not much money involved.You can also partner with a more experienced investor and/or hard money lender for extra funds & support.

If you want to do REI, your best bet is engineering, finance, or accounting.I did everything I just mentioned when I was in school and now have 3 properties.

Unless you want to try to learn specifics about certain topics like distressed sales, etc and get the kind of color you can only get from an experienced instructor, then I would stick with online.