The choice depends on their priorities simplicity now or long-term tax advantages.

I will highly appreciate if you could review the final numbers before i share them with potential LP's.

If the comps truly support $280–$290K, the appraisal might not hinder your final sale price, but it’s critical to prepare for hiccups.

A duplex or triplex is a solid choice for house hacking, and this community has tons of resources to help you learn how to find and analyze deals.

I will go so far to say that the sub-metering was the WRONG choice for us, given the cost, and given that if push came to shove, it would not hold up under scrutiny - by tenants, in a court of law - and therefore by extension, us.

Great choice...come on down to Texas. 

I have a little bit of a choice personal problem.

We were both pretty lucky and made some smart choices with what we had.

Notwithstanding the constant bellyaching by people - sellers and buyers - who want people to work for free, the US housing market has for the past 75+ years worked pretty well to make a lot of people wealthy and provide a wealth of housing choices for everyone.

When you finally get them on the ropes, they pack up and move out never to be seen again.