I want to learn this business and make this a reality for my family and me. 

The reality is, they are killing off mom-and-pop investors, which means the large corporations will just continue to grow.

Unfortunately, property prices are currently detached from reality and competition is insane.

FICO score crushed for the foreseeable future.2. stress on banking and investors who buy their loans.. maybe they just stop buying investor loans from small time landlord properties and you will see your values plummet with no liquidity in the market  just like 08 to 2010.reality is there are work outs for landlords there is mortgage forbearance for those that actually need it etc.. keep in mind 80% of renters are paying rent.. and on BP at least if you read the super landlords on this site hardly any of them are not getting paid.. its not a big enough problem that is going to curry public favor.. you are in a small business you do this for profit and loss and for risk reward.. don't want the risks don't buy rentals.

-What network have you established to make this a reality?

The current owner does and I am seeing the expenses for utilites go from $300/mo in the summer up to $800/mo. in the winter with Montana winters getting pretty brutal some years.

Hello all, I've been casually researching a variety of investing methods over the last year and see the "House Hacking" strategy as perhaps the most useful and lucrative strategy I can implement in my current situatio...

. :-)In reality probably 10-20% of the users are new enough they didn’t even notice and maybe 10-20% like the new format.

While real estate can sometimes escape that reality (for example, some rental properties can be sold to owner occupants - who don't care about costs in the same way investors do - instead of other business people - and in 2021 that is far more true than in any time that I can recall), if you pay full retail, you're in bad shape facing an uphill battle before you even get up from the closing table. 

At the end of the day, there is ZERO reality in which I wait 2 years before I purchase my first property, and am confident in the fact that I will find a way to put together my first of many deals sometime in the near future.