Median Price: $525,000 +7.14% Yoy - 7ish % isn't unusual, I have multiple ~7% moves since 2016.Sales: 5,344, -10.06% - normal number for September, 2020 was unusually high due to delayed purchases from Covid thus the yoy lossYTD sales: 41,238, +8.36% - highest Sept read I have, houses are selling.Inventory: 5,875, +6.16% - still too low compared to pre-Covid, see stacked chart.New Listings: 6,366, -10.61% - still too low compared to pre-Covid, see stacked chart.YTD New listings: 51,949, -2.47% - prior to Covid we were running 60k+ houses.Months Supply: 1.2, -14.29% - persistently low indicating an unrelenting sellers market, see the Existing homes as a % of households chart, continues to shrink.Cumulative days on Market: 26, -44% - persistently low indicating an unrelenting sellers market

House hack a quad, duplex, or even a single family with an ADU or tiny house in the backyard that you live in and rent out the house.And consider that having roommates living in your house is also house hacking. because your roommates might end up covering your mortgage.There are so many options but BP is the best place to start.

@William Hutchinson My first one I bought this year is a quad I put down about $50,000 plus a tiny bit extra for closing costs.

My sister is looking to buy a tiny home in TX as her primary residence and do short term rentals on the weekend.

#2 gives you much more coverage for just a tiny bit more per month, but I'm sure you already noticed that.....

I don’t know if the area is right or not, but I have heard of some investors doing glamping, portable tiny house, or renovated airstream for rental.

The tenant is the only income of the household?

Based on what I learned from the internet, it seems that the best way is to count the number of rooms in the house and take a percentage of the total household expenses, i.e. we have 4 bedrooms, 1 living room, 1 dining room, 1 kitchen, 1 office, so the office expense should be 1/8 of the total expenses, including property tax, utility, home insurance, etc.  5.

If you use city-data you can see the income trends differ by $40k in household income in two blocks.

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