You put 3.5% down and you almost make up your down payment in one year.

Do your research and run some numbers, but if you can buy a 4br house, rent out the other three rooms and be left with a very small mortgage payment, you can start saving for the next one and then rinse and repeat every few years. 

No one!

Strategy Selection – With your interest in STRs, multifamily, and fix & flips, consider focusing on one strategy first to build expertise before branching out.

welcome, would love to invest in Austin one day!

Over the course of using Bigger Pockets I have had very degrees of opinions on who I should vote for concerning a post.When I first started using Bigger Pockets, I was too naïve to even think of voting for someone that took the time to answer one of my post.  

Not sure their volume its certainly not like Kiavi or lima or one of the big players..

@Kyle DeboerGet a job and save up till you can buy the first one.

To offset costs, I’m planning to buy a duplex and pursue a house-hacking strategy:1.Rent out one unit as a long-term rental.2.Live in the other unit and rent out the bedrooms as short-term rentals (STRs) through a furnished rental approach.Before diving in, I have a couple of questions:1.Can I use a property for both short-term and long-term rentals?

You will go through a lot of bad potential renters before you find a good one.