I'm fresh to the game, just passed my sales licensing exam (literally 2 hours ago), I'm just looking for direction as to where I can find a team I can join, a good firm to join, or if I should just start my own team (as a realtor).

You’ll see this question is literally asked monthly, if not weekly. 

The goal of House Hacking is to lower your payment as much as possible, not to buy the prettiest house.Multi-family properties were literally designed to House Hack, so we always start there.

So you could literally double your salary by investing in one them.

This is literally asked monthly if not weekly.

The contractors you have literally make or break the profitability of rentals. 

When I first started I literally printed a map of my town and wrote ARV's on it for the different models of homes that were located within each neighborhood I was targeting.

This is so important that is literally written into our loan docs that the loan will be considered in default if the borrower moves in.

From your description it was literally sitting in place, but that was it. 

That is a VERY disturbing personality flaw that we literally can’t afford to chance.