I met a new investor, with contracting experience, at a local real estate meet up and he is interested in doing a flip using a hard money loan, renting the property out to his girlfriend, then using a FHA loan to buy it so he can live in it.

Our shared ambition is simple: deliver better traveler experiences across the entire traveler journey and maintain trust in the Vrbo marketplace.

Feel free to shoot me a PM and i'd be happy to connect further to share experiences or insights!

- I just enjoy talking and learning about RE.

Does anyone have first hand experience of this? 

I don't have a comprehensive experience  but I tried to find the least costly one for every step for me and applicants/tenants.

I speak this from experience and would love to save you all the $ I have wasted in the past!

So the "story" of why you are buying a SFR rental but also renting yourself should be very clear in a Letter of Explanation.However, these cases can be looked at generally - do you have other investment experience - or is this first foray into real estate completely? 

I have about a decade of proptech experience (selling into CRE and RRE), a year of residential leasing for EQR and 6 years of resi buy and hold invvesting. 

Your commission split will be higher in favor of the broker, BUT it's a good place to experiment and have your training wheels before branching off onto other brokerages that give you a better split.