Time is money, sure, anyone can close in 14 days -- and pay for it for years to come.

This is not a political post, but I can guarantee the first comment is, "I don't pay attention to climate when investing."

I would get very close to breakeven, but you are still living for practically free (not counting repairs, maintenance, and management) while paying down the mortgage on a monthly basis.I have never purchased a new property to house hack, but I would run the numbers like any other investment property.

They're fine paying an extra deposit and extra pet fee.

Many people sign up thinking it will work itself after they pay the money, but it doesn't work like that at all.

While the market is stalling a little my wife and I are considering the "Shred Method" to pay off some of these properties faster.

We use Streamline which is a legacy provider but it is cumbersome and designed for larger scale PM operations (trust accounting, owner portals, etc etc).Just a few integrations we use: Lynx (locks), BookingPal (channel manager), EZCare (HK/Maint Ops), RevMax (Pricing) - There are more, thats off the top of my head. 

i  would say househacking in expensive area is the best strategy.I got all tenants paying my mortgage , i never met them and they made the house more secured as well because there's always people in the house. 

He says he doesn't have the money to pay the rent and to get a new place.

When using the seller concessions, there is no impact to your rates and the seller pays for your closing costs.