The caveat, however, is that you need to run your numbers religiously and confirm that the property will work both as a house hack and LTR.

That being said, if you do decide to go down that route, you need to run your numbers religiously and verify with local investors that the investment will perform.

The crowd who survived 2007-8 was almost religious about only focusing on cash flow, but most of those folks have since realized that they made more through appreciation than cash flow. 

As an Architect, I have seen firsthand zoning and environmental laws used by project opponents to discriminate economically, religiously and racially or to try to squash business competition or eliminate labor competition more times than I can count.3.

Most of the approvals aren't all that helpful since the new developer is pursuing a significant change in the use from Assembly (religious) to Office, multi-family or Retail.

So now it's half taken apart and there's a large fall festival in the town next week.

I've been checking the MLS religiously but I'm not seeing much in the way of deals right now. 

Do you belong to a religious or ethnic group that is important to you?

Most investors who have used this strategy would advise that you run your number religiously and perform your due diligence. 

From a business perspective, we have got better at picking people and we're small enough that we can discriminate, though not on racial, religious, or gender grounds - just certain personality types that ring alarm bells, based on our experience.