And I have to guess that the stock or other bonuses he got from TripAdvisor and Facebook far outweigh the appreciation he is making on his SFH.My advice for someone in your shoes: keep living cheaply with a bunch of roommates, save up as much cash as you can, and wait a couple of years.

There may be other borrowing options out there, but they'd likely be expensive to borrow and probably outweigh any of the financial incentives to house hack in the first place.

The benefits greatly outweigh the negatives and it can completely change your current situation and VASTLY change your financial trajectory for 10-20 years down the road.

I've found that employment and population growth tend to outweigh the direction of local and national real estate markets.

I don't usually find that I get enough benefits to outweigh the increased complexities of dealing with the condo association.

In regards to Huntsville, there are way more investors for A/B properties than there are properties available;  demand in general greatly outweighs supply right now. 

Tenants rights in most states far outweigh landlord's right especially when it comes to eviction.

Freedom from the W2 far outweighed a more comfortable retirement so much he moved to a double-wide in a trailer park.

We had to take a little while to save up some money where we were then able to start putting in offers in January 2019 - Woo wee was that scary for us as a first time buyers (but our excitement definitely outweighed the fear)!

Looking for opinions on whether at this point in my life (mid 20’s), if the investment in higher education would outweigh the benefits of getting an early start in RE investing on my own.