Any kind of feedback or advice would help.

I hope to become more aggressive after that.Looking forward to meeting you all and appreciate the feedback in advance.Best,Ankit

@Bryan ChuchtaThanks for the shout out@Roland PaicelyThanks for the feedback.

We would then live in one unit, use two units to pay the debt service and operating expenses, and the fourth unit goes to the lender/investor to pay off their position.

Would I be selling the benificiary position of the trust?

Thank you all for the feedback!

I will be cash flow positive above my $2250/month mortgage/ins/taxes.- My goal is to follow Scott Trench's ideas in Set for Life and hopefully rent a room for under $1200/month to save some extra cash and use it along with my current savings to buy and house hack a duplex/triplex/fourplex in 4-12 months in the Oakland/Emeryville area.- I consider myself very handy since I have renovated my entire house 99% by myself and pulled permits. 

were I to buy in la, i would go the HRA route and house hack, but i still don't know if i can get positive cash flow with the prices here unless its a foreclosure. 

Would love feedback on a recent short sale I saw because there is something off.  

If you round out the complete picture here you should be able to get some detailed feedback and options.