In your personal strategy are you still renting out the main floor rooms in a house hacking strategy?

I was able to renovate the first floor in a few months to got the first roommate in.

I need all new appliances (Fridge, Microwave, Dishwasher, Sink, oven/range)I also need flooring (Tearing out carpet ..yes it's everywhere...yuck)Will also need to repaint and buy new LED lights for my fixtures. 

The seller said they re-did flooring, repainted the interior and added some other fixtures in the past year since they've owned it. 

Floor and Decor is a great place for tile combined with the selection and the savings over HD and Lowe's makes this store a good resource. 

LOL  If there's going to be problems down the road, their advice or forethought as to the planning/building of the structure, at least the flooring/layering on top of the existing structure, is going to be sooooo vital. 

We have a beautiful 8 unit property that we've rehabbed and currently offer 3 units for short term rental on the second floor.

I just replace the whole house with laminate floors.

We also updated flooring so we took out interest free loans to complete those projects.

We seldom paint, we seldom replace flooring.