OK, yes house hacking means you are living there and renting additional rooms or units from under the same roof.

For additional context, we don't think there much leverage in our primary residence as the LTV is 80%.Does anyone have any suggestions on how we could leverage our investment property?

CCIM and SIOR are good options, but they require a level of portfolio requirements to receive the designations that you won't have until you get immersed in the business yourself.Ultimately, what you need more than knowledge to succeed in this this business, is the willingness to have hundreds of conversations weekly with people you don't already know, and to do that every week for the rest of your career.

Additionally, there is an outstanding investment group in your backyard.

They get taxed in the year they receive their money.  

Another benefit of this option is that there is no additional liquidity requirement at closing.

Property 1100 sqft, 3bed 2 bath in Spring Area , is making $1400 in rent20% down = 38kLoan Origination, Closing cost = 5kLoan is 7.8 % ( investment interest is little higher ) out of 152k ( 190-138 ) = $1100 / month ( use mortgage calculator on google to calculate )Now add insurance 1200 / yearTaxes 3300 / yearProperty manager 1200 / yearThis is additional $475 per month, bringing you to a total cost of $1575 this is without repair reserves.

This isn't always as simple as it sounds, but could provide some additional insight.

Management company said they had an applicant that applied and they were in the middle of reviewing the applicant and therefore if they “approve” we have to use them and then they will give us management.As landlords, we just received lease to sign and there are some addendums we want to add for our property to protect our property etc. if the management company refuses to include some of our requests for the lease, does this give us an out to not have to sign the lease???

Also, if you simply wanted an AI agent receive a prompt from you , i.e.