There are some pretty nice discounts on many products and services offered as Perks to BP members that you might want to check out: https://www.biggerpockets.com/perks/proI really like the alerts feature that can quickly guide you to current topics that may be of interest: http://www.biggerpockets.com/alerts

The rental business is like every other business in the world where the business owners try to get as much money as possible for their products and services.

. :-)If you think you have to do it, at least maintain control over the end product so you get a look befitting the place.

I'd suggest hitting up the David Greene team and having their house hacking specialist find you a creative solution to house hacking in the bay area!

A ton of people waive contingencies and then use loan products that literally don't allow that and it cracks me up.

A portfolio loan is when the bank lends their own money and uses their own custom loan product to do so.

NOLO put out a great book covering tax:https://store.nolo.com/product...

The issue is that most loan products offered on residential homes don’t care about cash flow.  

They invite the community to a zoom presentation where they have all their selling system in place… Today they launched a product, their first investment in the USA, they will invest in San Antonio Texas, I think the project is made of 12 duplex homes, they will add a room to each of those houses to increase the rent, here you can see the link to that presentation Vive de las rentas - Vive de las Rentas USA: Lanzamiento Friends & Family | Facebook.4 / 5.

Not trying to schill their products but they have some great content for getting started and things to know.