I also have personally done 3-4 walkthroughs (so far) with the cleaners explaining my vision and reiterating our focus of creating an excellent vacation space for the guests and explaining why we do what we do.

My situation is I have excellent credit over 800.

However the majority of my mentors who have excelled in the industry have 4 year degrees from colleges where they established their network. 

Already stated by @Eric Yu in an excellent way.I just recently turned 30 and I can say with absolute certainty that if my light bulb moment came at 22, I would house-hack without question.

Second, when doing the math (the BP rental calculator is excellent), incorporate the HOA dues.

hey guys sorry i was at work just got home actually, I didn't mean to be vauge i got the info from www.nyc.gov i don't exactly know where but i know it comes up in a excel file and it was in staten island .....i think i was getting in over my head with it... all i really wanted to do was find out where the county clerks office was so i can look at some pre foreclosures.

______All locks and doorknobs must be in excellent working order.

Hope everyone is having an excellent day/week/month/year!

IF the real estate broker/agent is performing a service in the transaction without receiving compensation ( seems unlikely but crazy things occur all the time) then there’s an excellent chance that the agent will get sued at some point for something related to the transaction.  

There are plenty of excellent ones.