Taxes and financing are a huge component.

To embark on the life together without being married, without being able to face the challenges that are coming  without the legal, social, even spiritual help of facing them as husband and wife -- it's funny and sad and makes me want to both laugh and cry.

In addition to your online component, I'd recommend getting out to local real estate meetups and meeting others in your area who would be interested in working with you.

There are lots of components when pulling together a successful deal.Personally, I believe that your first deal should be solid and relatively straightforward.

Then we heard he went bankrupt, lost everything including his own mothers home & those he screwed crucified him on social media. 

Has anyone tried house hacking while also employing components of the BRRRR strategy?

Given the totality of what you posted, you probably need the "tip" income from your job to "count," which will indeed only be counted after it appears on a couple years of tax returns.The base salary component of your income can be counted right away provided you work full time, with the college transcripts potentially serving to satisfy 2 year work history requirement, but that tip/bonus/overtime/whatever component needs to be on a couple years of tax returns.

This trust is usually gained from the sponsor's social media profile or personal contacts.

I think there is an important emotional and mental wellness component to choosing where to live.

You generally will need to find something that needs major repairs or would need to have a value add component to it in some way. aka adding square footage, creating a second unit with an ADU.