Any thoughts or experiences you could share are so greatly appreciated!

Particulars:1) 1st SFH rental property cash flows $400 and we have a 2 year lease agreement that ends in 2025. 2) 2nd SFH I currently live in, I would rent out and probably experience a negative cash flow of --$100 cash flow for first year, break even 2nd year, and build little cash flow moving forward.

Instead, I'm interested in gaining experience and learning from your expertise.

This is my first experience -- either they are professional deal killers in general, or I ended up dealing with 3 in a row who happened to be deal killers. 

The good news is, with your experience and equity built, you're in a fantastic position to jump in.The key thing to remember with these larger deals is that they're rarely done solo.

I would love your experiences because my alternative is to spend a ton of money on airdna data! 

I have 40 years of experience in the home design and construction industry, a ton of skills, and talent.

I was wondering if there's anyone here from the the area that has experience with house hacking to pick their brain a bit.

I would love to hear how your real estate experiences has been!

Its certainly hard to cash flow significantly in the current environment (high rates, high values etc) - I tend to think though that just "doing" a first deal even if it doesn't make too much is valuable versus getting stuck in analysis paralysis - the learning from the experience of actual doing it generally is 10X + even a ton of courses, info, spreadsheets etc