I looked into alternative financing to leverage my equity to purchase the building and hit a wall. 

Last year when I found BP I posted my story and part of it was that I am enrolled in an Occupational Therapy Assistant Program (started last fall 2019) and I had feedback to get through school & wait to invest.

I’m assuming you had to find an alternate contractor during the rehabs.

Instead of paying rent and throwing that money out the window, I really want to get into house hacking as an alternative to start my REI journey.

., was a learning process for this first investment but better to overestimate than the alternative. 

we are trained and predisposed to be good at considering and weighing many alternative scenarios, and therefore are comfortable when the first plan falls through and can think quickly on our feet. 

Alternatively, the property may have received a variance or similar exception in the past and is now grandfathered in.

Ultimately, if we could find a financing alternative that was 5% for a good two years - we would be golden. 

Most people on Airbnb are doing it for the kitchen access and cool decor as an alternative to staying at a $100/night box hotel.

Would it be better to find alternative financing through a hard money lender?