Advice for an upcoming College Graduate looking to house-hack

[Connor McGinnis]

Hi All,

I am a brand new member and I am looking forward to connecting with people on here.  I graduate college in about 9 months and I am applying to jobs around the midwest area but also in areas I would like to eventually end up like Texas and Florida.  As I do not know where I am going to be living in a year from now it is tough to prepare to invest in a market I may not know much about at all.  My biggest goal is to start building my real estate portfolio as soon as I graduate and I plan on doing so by house hacking in the area I end up getting a job in.  It seems like inventory is low nationwide, and good deals for duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes are hard to find.  I do come from an entrepreneurial family and I believe they would help me finance a bigger deal if needed, but I would like to start with something reasonable as I do not have any experience and I am not very handy as of now.  Does anyone have any advice on how to go about my current situation?  Specifically, how should I go about finding a house-hacking suitable deal once I figure out where I am going to live.  Anything that you can share would be a big help.