That doesn't necessarily mean a paid membership here, but the point is that denigrating memberships is really just saying "I don't think what I want to achieve, or offer, is worth paying the Pro membership fee", which is about $20 per month.

You can collect the buyer side commission from the seller of the house, plus an assignment fee from the investor.You may want to discuss this business model with @Roy Cleeves.

If the Seller requires 10% down, that should be enough to pay the agent their fee for the sale.

Typically you need an exit strategy for any HML because you don't want to pay the points/fees for a long period of time, as that will eat into your profits.

My contract with them has $1000 fee for breaking early.

Fees will run anywhere from $600 - $1,000.If you add the interest and fees just as part of your cost and it still looks like a good deal, then do it.

By the time your unit is rented, you have now saved a lease up fee due to your property manager of likely $600-$800.  

I will assume your cash flow projections are good and include cap ex, maintenance, vacancies, PM fees, miscellaneous, etc.Selling gets you virtually $0 so in effect you have $0 invested. 

That to me is well worth paying a small fee to have a professional manager with experience do on my behalf.

I say this because the obvious reasons house hacking is attractive- but especially for vets because you can use your VA Loan to secure a great loan with possibly nothing down and a better interest rate- you can also have the funding fee waived if you, again, have any % disability which is great because that means no PMI and no funding fee- and finally you could do all that potentially without having to pay any property taxes.