@Nurzhan Abenov congrats on getting the first one in the bag!

My husband and I got married at Castle Farms :) That's a beautiful area, we're hoping to buy a property there some day - hopefully when the market comes down a bit though!

@Landon RasmussenPaint it, switch out all the lights for daylight LED, clean it like a laboratory inside, mostly denude the landscaping outside no matter how lush and beautiful you think it is. 

The beauty in my opinion with house hacking is the momentum your build by living for free or close to free while your tenant pays your mortgage down.

I came across real estate after continuously seeing a real estate business in my local Houston neighborhood purchasing old, dingy homes and flipping them into something beautiful. 

I know two brothers in my area, who started investing the same time we did, bought 2 triplexes like us, and then sold it about 8 years later, and bagged over $100K appreciation for each, totaling $200K.

Charles with 3.5% down and then moved out and now rent it - just like your plan), is that the numbers might not be beautiful - it can be tough to accomplish with such a low down payment.

The beauty of real estate. 

The younger EMT told me it was the first time he'd ever come in on a call to find help on the scene already in blue gloves.The older EMT actually stole my roll of paper towels out of my bag to clean up blood with.

Our backyard was lush green with beautiful grass.