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How can I pull of this house hack?
Hey, What's up , Hello BiggerPockets! This is my first post and I'm new to real estate and I'm super excited to jump into investing.
I live alone and would like to hack my downstairs.
My house is a 2 story (3/2) upstairs and downstairs 1/.5 + a huge family room and a bunch of closets I will never use.
bought in 2009 for 745000 in the SF Bay Area Peninsula
4/2.5 everything re-done in 2008
zillow/trulia shows $1.4M
There is 1 exit through the garage and 1 private entrance through a side door/side yard
I need to install a small kitchen , a shower and move the laundry room into the garage. I would split the big family room into 2 rooms (smaller family room and a bedroom). All bedroom rooms would have a window and a closet. The kitchen/dining room would have a door.
I would relocate a door in the garage so that if I entered through the garage, I could still go upstairs without seeing the tenants and make a wall so that tenants couldn't go upstairs.
The wall to wall carpet is in great condition but i guess I could take it out and put hardwood when the carpet gets old.
I'm guessing the rennovation would probably cost around $30k.
My current mortgage is 2800 and I owe about $500k but I need to buy my Ex out.
1000sqft homes/apartments that are 2/1 in my area rent for about $3200/month
I could rent the top floor for maybe $3700/month (property manager rents my next door neighbors entire house with similar floor plan for $4500)
How can I get financing to
a. creatively buy my ex out (maybe pay her out in payments with low interest?).
b. pay for the renovations so that I can earn cash flow. Can I do a 203k/FHA for the renovation and to buy out my Ex?
Do I need a combination of loans to do buy out my ex and do the renovation?
I appreciate any feedback or advice. Thanks in advance BP!