So let me see if I am understanding correctly.

House hacking is so powerful!!

So an investor buys the property, you pay them a down payment for the lease option then pay rent for a year and after a year you have option to buy it.What makes this challenging is the lease option payment would probably need to be around 20% of the purchase price but it sounds likeyou do not have it. maybe moving is just not in the cards.

I do work all over the US, so I would be happy to chat and explore different markets with you

I do like the built in leasing that apartments offers over the OG Cozy site, but I don't really want to pigeon hole myself into the apartments.com brand (or Zillow, or any other of the type) so I'm starting to use rent redi.

TN markets are still pretty free market so even if you do get cancelled there will be alternatives.

Hi Kam 👋 There’s so many ways to make money in real estate and they all have their pros and cons.

@Morgan Tondre Thank you so much. 

Once we had the home inspection I was able to have the seller credit us at closing $8k...of which the escrow could not credit the entire amount and so I had the seller write up a personal check for $2000 How did you finance this deal?

Savings: Hold the deposit here so it's separate from operating funds.