This is where the true power lies. 

I know there will be mistakes and lessons learned along the way, but technology like Facebook, BiggerPockets and YouTube can help reduce those mistakes.

She has an integrity problem and will lie to me just like she wants to do to the government.2.

In the mean time, I want to understand where some of the pitfalls lie in starting house hacking.

There are two (relevant) types of companies in a given market: 1) the ones who have embraced technological advances and are using automations and systems to update all parties live or close to it and 2) the ones that are aware and may be trying but it's not built yet. 

I am running an ad campaign for an accredited investor opportunity, and I am seeing a fair amount of traffic from people looking for smaller, owner-operator type projects (10-20 units is a very common search).You could cap the budget and see where the interest lies, develop a prospect list.

The owner, Annie Scott, speaks out of both sides of her mouth so often, she literally can’t remember the last lie she tells you.

Percentages lie...and they don't tell you what you need to know about your investments. 

My background is in technology - specifically Business Intelligence and Data Engineering but throughout my personal and professional work experience, I've created and automated some pretty powerful and robust workbooks and dashboards (Metrics/KPI reporting) using Excel.

They take jobs in the field of their choice (technology, real estate, retail, etc), learn the business from the inside out, save some startup capital and THEN venture out on their own.The other benefit of this methodology is that if you fail, you're not going to have to flip burgers to pay your rent...you'll still have skills to go back and either try again or rebuild your war-chest for the next venture.