Alternative ways to find a great duplex to house hack

[Nicholas Ziegler]

My wife and I are looking buy a duplex in the San Antonio area. As I’ve looked on Zillow and other sights there are not a whole lot of properties for sale in the areas we would like to live. I have driven around and know that there are duplexes.

Does anyone have other ideas of how to find a houses for sale besides looking on the big websites? 

[Mike Dorneman]

I’ve had success by working the rental pages on CL and the local newspaper. I simply let them known that I’m not interested in renting, however I would like to talk about purchasing their property. The phone calls usually have about a 79% success rate “meaning the owner is willing to talk at least”.
You’ll then obviously need to analyze the deal as you would a listing you might find.
I’ve been able to identify some very profitable off market deals this way.
Good luck