First time house hacker duplex

[Tesfalem Araia]

I live in Dallas Texas and I’m really into house hacking after I stumbled into BiggerPockets real estate podcast and reading the house hacking strategy by Craig Curelop. I feel and believe this is the right way to get into real estate investing. Btw big shoutout to Craig Curelop for a wonderfully composed and powerful book. Anyone from the Dallas Fortworth area that can help me in my initial journey to real estate investing. I am more interested in the north Dallas duplexes like Richardson, Plano, Allen, little elm and garland. I’m in the process of contacting lenders like house ready and house possible from Freddie Mac and fha loans. Any info about investment location recommendations for duplexes. Btw I have a family of my own with two kids, so the obvious house hack would be a duplex that I can stay in one side and rent out the other side.

Thanks everyone.