You said you were looking towards SFH in another post so Hard Money Lender are good to get you money faster, fund the initial purchase and fund the renovation. 

I am trying to get started in real estate investing and my initial plan is to save and house hack a duplex.

Initially we are focusing on learning about buy and hold rental investing strategies (Single Family/House Hacking).Any words of advice for a young couple that is starting out in the real estate investing world?

Unfortunately, liability insurance, while absolutely necessary only goes so far; after the fact is too late to initiate an asset protection program, needs to be done ASAP.

I would guess this needs to be deducted off the income of the newly acquired properties, even though the "paperwork" states that the interest is against the initial property that the cash-out-refi was against.

Also, how much initial capex did the property need?

@Tri Nguyen1st thing is you should have done your market research initially .

He’s Asking $290k (from which we’d subtract the initial $15k deposit for a total due at end of 12 months of $275k)ARV is $350kOn Airbnb should pull in approx. $4.5kWhat would you call this type of deal and is this the best way to structure it?

Changing your last name to an initial would be wise (not that it will really stop a sophisticated scammer from finding out who you are, but it doesn’t hurt either and prevents your name from coming up in a google search).

@Alex KernusWe just completed a new construction in FL that appraised for $45k above what we initially paid for it.