My personal experience, I majored in economics with a focus in business analytics but what’s worked for me and I think is a good path is to major in something that will maximize your W2 earning potential and use the money to invest in real estate.

What I would love to know you would funnel potential tenants and how you would do a background check, also what kind of rules have you set in place for your own house hack?

This means they could be pursued for repayment or potentially face legal action to recover the lender's losses.

Some that I have found seem to do it all including locate properties, generate leads, and some just run the numbers and generate reports.So far I have looked at these:Sure, here are the links to the mentioned real estate investment analysis software:DealCheck: DealCheck is a comprehensive real estate analysis software that allows investors to analyze properties, estimate rental income, calculate cash flow, and evaluate potential returns.

You may not be able to back out of contract to save your escrow deposit and I’m no lawyer, but if you’re doing inspection and it’s totally jacked up and it can potentially clean out your account and portfolio.

Establish your investing criteria and objectives, including your risk tolerance, financial objectives, target communities, and property type.

While this can land you in potential audit risk, I think you're in the clear here. 

Also, if you list the property at the higher rate because you’re including SOME of the electric utilities (because you won’t be able to eliminate 100% of the bill.) you’re going to lose potential tenants that are filtering by rent and/or see similar properties for less, causing longer vacancies.

What is the best way to find a potential buyer without listing it on the mls.

Earnest money, inspections and potential losses of the seller?