Here are a few innovative strategies that have been game-changers for my portfolio:- Co-Living Spaces: With affordability concerns rising, co-living setups are attracting young professionals and students.

Once you take over a property as an owner occupant, if it is a single family or condo you can live in it for 1 year and that automatically exempts your unit from rent control.

We live just outside of city limits and therefore Coconino county. 

Additionally, young adults are living together with no intention of marriage.  

It's not a bad strategy, especially if you live in a lower-priced area with a good rent-to-purchase price ratio.

I like to look for locations that are good, and that I’d feel safe and comfortable living in if I was a single woman with a couple of kids.

I live in Lawrenceville, GA and am beginning my first house hack, working to purchase another property by the end of the year. 

I’m looking to start in DFW since I live in Arlington but eventually I’ll be open to other markets to diversify my portfolio.  

I can speak from experience as a student at Texas A&M, I lived in a 5 br/5 b house and I knew plenty of other students who lived in similar houses or "Ag Shacks" if you will.

Right now I'm living in Baltimore, still working 9-5 W-2.