@Meena MallikFrom my experience, securing financing for commercial real estate involves understanding your options, such as conventional loans, commercial loans, private lenders, or partnerships.

The biggest hurdle I have with convincing ppl to househack is they feel like they 'deserve' to live alone, they've put in the time with roommates in college, etc and they wanna feel 'grown-up'.

Quote from @Marshall Robins: We can go up to 50% LTV as a private lender for what it's worth.

For most of their existence Fannie and Freddie were privatized.  

I don't mind sharing the link via a private message!

Their biggest challenge was finding a reliable cleaning crew, but once they built a team, everything ran smoothly.Let me share another example.

.: Hi All,Is there any way to structure a private lending arrangement so that income is considered passive (by IRS standards) and can offset accumulated schedule E losses?

That was my biggest mistake.

But maybe its worth it if you don't have a place to get hard/private money for deals. 

Quote from @Mike Johnson: Hi everyone, I was curious what might be some of the biggest problems to you run into while managing your properties?