Please note -- although this is separate from property management, IF your PM handles this for you in addition to traditional property management, is the fee you would pay them for this different than if it were a completely independent construction manager/overseer not already associated with the apartment complex?

House hacking will also give you some personal "property management" experience.

Have you expressed your interest in real estate to anyone in your personal circle?

@Travis Peterson  You’ve got different options based on your personal financial picture.

Needed to get my skin in the game and found a great opportunity with a wholesale deal and had a good visible gap between our buying price and the value of the home so I interested me to this deal because of the way that me and the team would be able to learn and handle these opportunities in the deal to maximize ROI and asset lifespan of performance.

Since he didn’t seem anything like whatI thought of as a “super sales personality”, I asked him how he found such success.

I assist clients in figuring out methods to finance real estate, and house hacking is my bread and butter.Something i've done personally and continue to help new inspiring investors do every day.

That said, that isn't the kind of action I'm personally cool taking part in or giving advice to others to do. 

I actually had to get enough units where I could offer tenants multiple housing options when I purchased properties rented at way under market rates and then (an embarassing number of times) personally watch tenants that would "suffer" from a rent increase turn down smaller (but nicer places) or  nicer places in a less prestigious zip code (sometimes only minutes away) before I realized that I was hampering my ability to earn a living in order to subsidize the lifestyle choices made by a some random stranger that happened to live in a property I bought.

Personally, I have a boutique investment company.