Unless there is a lot of profit in the deal it may or may not be worth your time since you also have to find a buyer on the back end.

@Joseph Bogorad, put simply, anytime its principal and interest expenses total higher than 50% of its rental income (in this case, 61% at the asking price), you're looking at a probable negative cash flow scenario (given that your other expenses are commonly around 50% of its income).

Because I’ve been in the non-profit world from right out of high school, I have no start up money whatsoever.

All you can do is making the best educated guess and be a good enough problem solver once you have it to turn a profit.

Several offers I had on several properties cut my potential profit by 2.

However it is still misleading and not factually correct or are you simply expressing an opinion?

But don't do it if you're looking to simply earn a return on your money; you're house-hacking to make your cost to ante up to buy into the market less than the alternatives of either not playing or buying elsewhere with a higher ROI but still paying a variable rent for your own personal residence.

One building was sold for profit, another was refinanced and the other one is just cash flowing and will eventually sell or refi. 

@Chandan SinghMaybe move them back in, take 30% of the profit from their "business" ?

Our acquisitions reps are simply skilled negotiators (we use John Martinez's) sales methodologies.