@Arshiya TaamiRenting by the room as a house hack is an amazingly powerful strategy that most people aren't willing to do. 

It sounds attractive because everyone says it is low- or no-money down, but if you don't have money to make the deal another way, you don't have much leverage to make the deal the way you are suggesting.Sub to and seller finance are shiny objects for people who want to get started in investing to make money, but have no capital.

You can start counting your hours once the property is under contract.

while you will want to get it rented soon, be very wary of people who can move in right away-why can they move in immediately? 

I'm one of the few people admitting to anticipating a real estate crash, probably a market crash, probably a devaluation of the dollar.

If I'm following this correctly, the 1st issue I see is that you have an "active" business (consulting) versus a "passive" business (the rental property, assuming you don't do hands on management, etc.)...this would be a separating line for many people I've talked to about this. 

Feeling pretty discouraged when cold-calling people who are in preforeclosure.

When I mentioned a new build would be vacant for 2-3 months they said that didn’t even need to be mentioned it was short enough not to count. 

I would worry much less, at this stage, about which account is going to earn you more than how to make more money at your job or take on a side gig also to enhance it.A lot of blogs and people will have you focus on the micro here, not buying Starbucks, or getting a .01% better yield, but that doesn't really matter right now because it's not a big earn.

I think I was looking through people's comments about PMs in SW FL.