All Forum Posts by: Danielle Campos

 Yes, correct. I'm househacking my home and renting out the extra rooms to others so they will be my roommates at the end of the day.

I just posted my rooms for rent in my first house-hacking (yay!) and I've been trying to understand how I should reply to some inquiries I've been receiving. I've posted that I prefer female housemates (zillow, hotpads, and roomies allow for this) so I assume I can deny someone for being male if that's not what I want and clearly state this in my reply to them?

Another one that has popped up a lot is people with ESAs. One has been an ESA cat - which I am allergic to cats. I assume I can deny on the fact that I'm allergic to cats? However, my latest inquiry has been a woman with an ESA dog. I have a dog in the house and would not like other pets at this time, being ESA or not. Can I deny this person and state that I do not want additional animals in the house? Is there any risk to me in denying for this reason?

 Hey Jake. Thanks for the question. Since I'm planning to have 5 bedrooms and one has a master bath, that would mean 4 people would need to share 1.5 bathrooms. My goal with extending the half bath to a full is to provide more shower spaces for people and hopefully make it more attractive to live in the home. I guess at the end of the day it isn't 100% needed but personally I think it would make it more marketable.

Let me know if your thoughts.

 Appreciate the advice, David. As much as I personally hate carpet, we will be keeping them in the bedrooms for that same sound proofing reason. We're also lucky that none of the bedrooms share a wall so that should reduce any noise disturbances. I'll make sure the LVP on the 1st floor is not noisy for the one bedroom down there.

Thanks for the mental tip. I'm sure I'll need it!

 Definitely feel is already on the "cost more" part. Haven't experienced the "take longer" part but I'm sure my 1 month timeline will stretch out... Will take a look at SmartCore - thanks!

Thank you for the words of encouragement! I've been stuck on the "contractors" part of building your team but I'll get there eventually to contract out the big stuff.

Hi Vitality. Thanks for commenting! I'm 100% with you there. I want to make sure I make money, so trying to keep costs low while also trying to make the house look like a place people would want to live. My strategy right now is to get long term roommates and to move out after the year to buy my 2nd house hack. I'm trying to DIY as much as I just to A) reduce costs and B) I'm naturally curious to see how much I can do myself so I can gain experience. If the long term roommates strategy doesn't pan out, then I'd go for the Airbnb route.

Appreciate your comment and let me know if you have any other thoughts!

I'm running to BiggerPockets because no one else understands what I'm doing or how excited I am. I closed on my first home/first house hack last week! It is a 4 bedroom, 2.5 bathrooms single family home. My plan is to convert the dining room into the 5th bedroom and the 1/2 bath into a full bath and ultimately make this a 5 bed, 3 bath home.

The home is exactly what I wanted with light renovation needed. I've never done anything DIY so this will be my first attempt. I am planning to put in LVP, paint the kitchen cabinets, and add some tiles to the bathroom. Unfortunately, it seems that I may need to replace all the carpets upstairs since it has black lines on the edges due to soil filtration (previous owners didn't clean their air filters often).

I'm feeling very optimistic right now, but have spent a whole week just trying to decide on a good value LVP so I can replace the 1st floor... I still need to pick a carpet, get it installed, and find a contractor who can do the bathroom conversion (I definitely cannot do that).

Would love to hear other's experience diving into doing DIY for the first times. Any tips?

Hi @Harshraj Thakor. I'm also going to be starting my first house-hack in Charlotte and I have been wondering the exact same thing so thanks for posting! I'm also planning to track all the items I buy for the common areas (living room, kitchen, backyard). I'm wondering what expenses can be considered for business deductions.

Thanks for sharing! Super inspiring but not sure I could do a curtain-in-room situation. Kudos to you! Looking for a home to househack at this 7.3% interest rate life we currently live so reading these stories get my spirits up!