What's fascinating about real estate investing is the investor ability to be creative and make money/fund a deal.

Looking into house hacking to raise money to fund my first deal. 

ORThe investor may have enough to buy ONE property with their own cash, but that will tie up all of their funds, and they cannot scale / thus make more money.

And 3) you can scale your investing business quickly by using private money to fund all your deals.

Before I am able to fund a deal myself, what should come first?

Congrats it sounds like you're off to a great start in a short period.Where are you finding all these deals and how are you funding them?

Hard money scenario that size, you either need to a) find a mortgage broker that'll do you a solid and send it to a HML that she sends a bunch of business to, who will do her a favor, or b) private funding.

Current situation:So I don't have much funds but I do work a part time job and have few side hustles that I try to generate any extra income.

Funding up to 80% ltv.

The problem is a lot of lenders were skiddish because they saw property values falling, so what was a 75% LTV at closing could (theoretically) become 95% LTV 6-12 months later.