House Hacking Question

[Philip Gumpl]

Hi everyone,

I just had a question about buying a place to House Hack for my first property, specifically a duplex. The goal is to have move into one apartment and the rent collected from the other apartment pays for the mortgage and maybe even gives some cash flow. So far, none of the properties I've looked at really come close to that. Is that something I should be adamant about? The property I'm looking at now, I would end up paying about 500 a month myself, but when I move out eventually I would be gaining about 200 in cash flow. Is this normal?

Thank you!