I originally went to college for Culinary Nutrition, but soon learned the rat race wasn’t for me.

Any multis w/ 2 or less units, you usually have to supplement your living costs.

Hard money is to supplement the shortfall between what the bank will lend and the cash you are able to bring to closing. 

You may be able to supplement W-2'd income with draws from your investment account (assuming that's where your $400k in assets resides).

From there, a fixer-upper house-hack or live in flip might be a great opportunity to develop some practical skills that can help you supplement your income or add a lot of value economically to your purchase! 

Perhaps one of your parents is willing to be a non-occupying co-borrower on the loan to help supplement your lack of income?

Is there a particular reason why you don't want to get licensed/bonded as a General Contractor to supplement funding for your own flips/BRRRRs? 

Take half of the profit we make from the sale and invest in an income property to provide cash flow to supplement our salaries for our next purchase4.

Conventional with or without hard as a supplement will depend on your cash position compared to the deals you find. 

And the city is supplementing Amazon's impact by helping to develop the southern end of Academy road down in that area, so more businesses will come in.Again, this is all to say, I think Amazon is obviously a boon for an area.