They also provided 24/7 staff at the sober living house.Many half-way houses are essentially large scale roommate situations with little to no clinical oversight.

Likewise, tenants seeking to add or replace a roommate will be exempt.

If your lender will allow you to put your primary residence in an LLC (or if you can refinance to the LLC), you can then house hack by renting to roommates under the LLC.

We rented to three roommates for $1150 a month.

I'd put 5% down for this, take on roommates, see how you like the experience and then re-evaluate in a year or two. 

What else would I need to do to have roommates legally move in?

I already have 2 roommates lined up that would rent rooms and finding more if space permits would not be an issue.

While we all would rather be able to trust people, I've seen situations where not-so-savory tenants and real estate flippers are able to explain financial issues in their backgrounds to the landlord or investor's satisfaction - bad partnerships, spouses, roommates, things like that - just to turn around and run off owing large sums of money.

My roommate and I have been friends since high school and we want to split this house since we both do not have much money, but we want to invest in real estate. 

Dear BP Friends, I have a tenant wanting to add a roommate.