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Matthew Posteraro
  • New to Real Estate
  • Hatfield, PA
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Conservative Scaling for House Hacking

Matthew Posteraro
  • New to Real Estate
  • Hatfield, PA
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Me and my wife are aiming to start our real estate investing journey with our first house around June/July in the Lehigh Valley area. We are planning to live in one unit and rent the other half out of a duplex, then rinse and repeat this process as many times as possible over the next 5-10 years. We are both nurse and plan to travel for a good portion of this time, so 'living' in the small 1br or studio apartment for residence purposes will not be a major issue for us since we will rarely be there.

After this 10 year period we plan to stop buying new properties and aim toward paying off current mortgages to help increase our cash flow in retirement. I am looking for any recommendations on how to properly scale this idea over the first few years conservatively and not wanting to over use leverage and debt by starting small in duplex and being open to triple/quadplex in the future if the right opportunity presents itself. Any helpful advice or pointing toward any resources would be greatly appreciated.

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