House Hacking (Single Family)

[Nathan Goff]

New to the game. I recently bought a 4 bed 2.5 bath in Williamsburg, VA to live in and I'm greatly considering renting out the rooms.

How should I advertise the rooms? Craigslist? Flyers?

I think furnishing the house myself would help bring people in. Or would I be wasting my time and money doing this?

What kind of lease agreements would I need? More specifically, how would they he different from a normal lease?

Thanks for reading and I appreciate any info/advice.

-Nate

[Davido Davido]

@Nathan Goff, "How should I advertise the rooms? Craigslist? Flyers?"    For renting rooms, Craigslist still works well in many areas, but Craigslist is slowly loosing effectiveness to the many new alternatives.  People are advertising their rooms on Nextdoor.com, Facebook marketplace, Zillow (which publishes your rental to Zillow, Hotpads and Trulia all at once) and there are many other websites for rooms.  Note room rentals won't be published on Zillow, but I still post my room rentals there because they do still get posted to Trulia and Hotpads.