Success involves sacrifice.

I made sacrifices, how much fun and leisure time do you think one has doing College FT, working a FT job and a PT job?

Its just my dog and I so more than willing to sacrifice the majority of the property to the renters to maximize income.

I am positioned to begin investing in real estate with all-cash deals but am just trying to learn as much as I can and meticulously plan my strategy so there are no gray areas where I would sacrifice opportunity or create unnecessary risk.What threw me off on refinancing was just my misunderstanding of the terminology.

If making it a duplex, one may "sacrifice" and just be a 1br, to keep the other a great 3br, vs making both a crappy 2br.

Now the fed choose to press the brake as inflation is sticky at 3%, we would see what's going in 2025.but from the fed mandate to reduce inflation, they want the rent growth to be flattened, so they would sacrifice the CRE (aka equity ownership). this is way also why lp investor has to invest in common sense, if the boss want the rent to be reduced, don't go against the boss.... just don't invest.

Renting by the room would increase your rental income, but you may sacrifice in your own quality of life having to manage so many tenants.

My differing advice/thought is if you plan on being a doctor for most of your life, and your goal isn't to replace your income with real estate in the next couple of decades, sacrifice "projected returns" and do your homework on the risk for any deals you evaluate. 

Short-term sacrifices and delaying gratification will bring you abundance later in life.Definitely take advantage of your first-time home buying benefits and consider house hacking a duplex or 4-plex.

It takes sacrifice and actually does one of the hardest things in real estate investing, ADDS VALUE.To me house hacking is a flip so you have to have a good exit strategy.