None of the skills involved with being good with one of those translates to the other.  

Volunteer at Habitat for Humanity to learn basic construction/improvement skills. 

I also have a 24k student loan, so I have been trying to think other real estate options to gain capital, flipping sounds like a good approach but I don't have any the skills do do it myself at the moment. 

If I had 1M liquid I must have some very high level skills already that I use to make a lot of money, and my time would be more well spent doing that then learning a completely new skill set that would be required to be an successful SFH investor

I have experience in building my own WordPress websites and have some skills in SEO ( I have been able to get my websites ranked #1 for their keywords).

It’s a soft inquiry supposedly.

As long as you have the skill and desire, go for it.

Personally, I've seen a 10%-20% dropout rate from soft commit to funded deal, depending on the new/repeat mix. 

I would raise your soft costs to 5%.Are you managing it yourself?

It's a horrifying market for numbers.Just some general considerations for househacking-https://www.biggerpockets.com/...If you have reno skills and all that though, who knows!