Affordable housing is RED-hot at this time, especially if it's decent 3br+ housing sub $2k.   

Purchase price: $232,000 Cash invested: $200,000 Sale price: $575,000 I purchased this single-family property and undertook extensive renovations, including excavating a new foundation and reframing the entire two-story house.

Purchase price: $355,000 3 unit house hack with 2 separate buildings. 3 Bedroom/2 bath, 2 bedroom/2 bath, 1 bed/1 bath.

Goal here is to use the VA's 0% down on a multiplex and rent out the unit I'm living in after 12m.
The mental gymnastics I'm going through is how exactly that would work without committing fraud.
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Save up more capital and buy an investment property or just house hack for a year. 1 year really isn’t that long and flies by pretty quick.

Because the existing house was too low the developer followed the rough location of the old sewer line and installed a new sewer line to connect to the existing house. 

I think house hacking with a VA is still well worth it. 

The other question I have is if anyone has tried this on repeat, like with standard house hacking (live in for a year and repeat). 

It was a typical house purchase deal.

That's a lot of work that needs to be done for your first house hack.