If there is potential for these two to overlap, then house hacking would be the ideal strategy.

The ideal is to get two quotes and or two separate invoices.

Even though retiring by 40 is an exceptionally early goal (or so I thought), we have realized that we can move that up WAY quicker by leveraging the fact that we have so much more disposable income than we need.After attending a BiggerPockets webinar, watching hours of YouTube videos and researching online, I have decided to take the plunge and buy my first rental property.

Short-term renting on the other hand may be ideal. 

My goal is to purchase small multi-family real estate (duplex, triplex, fourplex) and ideally for my first deal to be a house hack.By working during college, I have accumulated $50,000 in savings and investments but I will realistically be able to deploy $25,000-30,000 toward real estate this summer.

So every year ideally you would want a few deals ending while you look for other deals in which to redeploy your capital...or build up some dry powder to be used somewhere else if needed.

Ideally I'd love to cashflow $200-300. 

I have a video walk through so that can suffice if that’s not a good idea.

Ideally, something in the hill country as I live in an Austin suburb.

Ideally, I would like to split the total revenue 60-40 in my favor because I would be doing all the self management duties of an STR.