Otherwise it seems many people have paying roommates.

He did mention though his roommate had a 2 ft snake though.

There are some legal considerations if you're a homeowner trying to run credit checks on roommates or tenants.

They may cut out going out to eat for lunch and dinner and having a Starbucks twice/day, but most will stay in their A class apartment - possibly with a roommate.

I'm going to live in one bedroom and rent out the other two rooms to tenants who are also my roommates. 

If one tenant is being really hard to live with other roommates, creating issues out of nothing on a daily basis to the point where tenants are complaining to me every week and sometimes daily.As a landlord, I tried diffusing situations many times to no avail.

I’ve had 2 roommates where I met one, and the other was via Skype, but never the entire party sight unseen.

From there rent out other rooms to roommates so they pay your living expenses for you.

On another note, I saw a friend's post on Facebook about her "a-hole" landlord, and how she and her roommates were considering not paying the rent in April.

If you want to house hack but are worried about finding roommates, run the numbers with really low rents and see if that still works for you.Thats what i'm doing.