Volunteer at Habitat for Humanity to learn basic construction/improvement skills. 

I also have a 24k student loan, so I have been trying to think other real estate options to gain capital, flipping sounds like a good approach but I don't have any the skills do do it myself at the moment. 

If I had 1M liquid I must have some very high level skills already that I use to make a lot of money, and my time would be more well spent doing that then learning a completely new skill set that would be required to be an successful SFH investor

I have experience in building my own WordPress websites and have some skills in SEO ( I have been able to get my websites ranked #1 for their keywords).

As long as you have the skill and desire, go for it.

It's a horrifying market for numbers.Just some general considerations for househacking-https://www.biggerpockets.com/...If you have reno skills and all that though, who knows!

That has everything to do with you and your skill set.

Sure, there’s overlap, but they are different skill sets.

I have it in the budget to pay him to leave and also have a particular set of skills to be very convincing if need be.

This applies in general to most businesses vs real estate investments.Can someone with right skill set, abilities, knowledge and luck built a very profitable STR arbitrage business?