The strategy of house hacking kept coming up, but there are not a whole lot of podcasts, or articles, or tips on how to make that work with a family and kids.

How do you approach someone who's living in a $1M house and driving his-and-hers $$$ cars and explain to him that the fact that his wife is endlessly determined to prove to her own mother that she could have more kids and turn them out better on Sunday by documenting it on Instagram is the main thing holding him back?

Get full name, email, phone, where they work, and find out their intentions before doing any sort of showing.During showing get to know them, but be sure to be mindful of fair-housing laws and do not ask questions such as "are you married" and "do you have kids".

We were getting ready to make Waco our next market to explore for an investment, and almost completely backed out after seeing the info about last year's City Council ruling.

Gotcha - will explore that next time. 

Of course you may have other reasons to quit, wanting to spend time with family, kids, wanting to travel, etc.

The owner died 3 years ago with no kids.

Everyone is recommending manage it myself, but I am in fear that with my job and upcoming kid will cause me to make mistakes with hiring bad capenters, repair people, etc.

I would definitely explore other opportunities. 

But as you know I am an old dinosaur and ONLY TEXT if its one of my kids or wife and maybe the 10 or 15 clients that are closest to me and long term  ( and thats if they text most dont)..