Ideally, if you can househack with roommates would be good or buy something with a basement that you can finish and Airbnb.

And give yourself 6 months to pull that off.Or, if you can find a decent deal quickly but don’t want to come out too much cash out of pocket for it find some roommates who will pay the note and the PMI but I’d have that plan for 3-5 years until you can refinance once your equity is at 20% then you won’t pay PMI anymore

I am looking for a roommate to help me share the costs of my rent.  

After seeing that TurboTenant and Zillow can't take separate roommate payments, those two were out.

Hopefully potential roommates will be your friends but you don't want to be taken advantage of. 

Have the additional roommate apply and qualify them like you would anyone else.

I mean you could get a place by your college and get roommates

I am more than okay with having roommates, as long as it makes me closer to reaching my goal.

This is a first for me but I guess it was only a matter of time. I have 3 tenants in a rental. One wants out via a sub-lease to a friend. If I approve it, I still plan to do a background check on the new tenant, but w...

Ideally, while I live there, I will have a roommate who's rent will cover the mortgage.