First Time House Hacker - Pittsburgh, PA

[Anthony Rini]

Hey everyone, after reading multiple books from BiggerPockets, I'm glad to finally be on the forum and looking forward to making connections! I'm a 24 year-old recent college graduate from Virginia but grew up in the Pittsburgh area. I'm looking to return home this summer and house hack my first property. I'll have about 16k saved up at this point and will be using an FHA owner occupied loan. I'm open to both single-family and multi-family units, preferably in the South Side or South Hills. I'd like to use this property to start out and then acquire more properties in the 2-3 years to follow using BRRRR. Does anyone have any good advice on starting out, since this is my first investment property? And what areas would you recommend, whether that's the areas I listed above or anywhere else? I'm also wondering if it's hard to rent out individual rooms if I were to go to the single-family route? Any advice or tips would be very much appreciated and I'm looking forward to making some connections with folks in the area!