Changing partners mindset of House Hacking

[Matt Moylan]

Hey friends I’m hoping to get your opinion on my situation. I am all in on House hacking and doing that for a couple years to get into investing, but my girlfriend doesn’t want to because she has this mindset that we would be living in a dump.

We decided recently decided to quit renting and purchase a single-family home to build equity. She is not opposed to doing real estate investing (and sees the tremendous potential), but has no interest in doing a house hack.

With our recent purchase of the SF, what would you recommend me doing to get into REI in 2019/2020? Also, what would you do to help change her opinion on house hacking. We are in a hot market (Kansas City), so I want to take advantage of anything I can ASAP.

Thanks for your help and input!

[Pat L.]

It's tough & my wife has amazing patience (to a point) with those we have tackled. The worst was driving all the way to our Lakehouse & we had just torn the toilets out.  She was not amused!!! (pic. below)

In fact our friends just called us to help them finish a $400k home that's still being built. Not exactly habitable but they want to try 'house hacking' & want my wife there to advise because she has lived through it.

In fact the seller of this half finished home was divorced because of the long drawn out build.