They work to build equity and lower your expenses if you are house hacking for sure, but I want that extra safe guard if I need to leave and rent the entire place.2) Safety: I use to travel for work and stay in airbnbs and rent off craigslist with really good luck actually with a few exceptions that weren't even that bad.

But I am guarding against emotional attachment should HOA & boarded next door be an issue.I plan to talk to HOA manager this week.

This all just happened today and caught me off guard.

Army National Guard.

I am active duty US Coast Guard and a recruiter in Columbus.

With experience in a fast moving tech industry & as I served in the Army National Guard for 4 years while I was in the U.S.

Because that would also change the strategy as a wife can move while you are deployed making everything good to go on the VA mortgage process.Are you ETSing out completely or would you be transferring to the Guard or Reserve because that also changes your options on what you can do (Option 3). 

The only item that really kind of caught me off guard was they had this pet coverage that was different.

Now, fast forward to January this year when we took part of a flip I did with my co-worker in the Coast Guard.

When we were going over his taxes he was like....Natalie..I look so poor here. haha The biggest chunk of his  cash for the year wasn't taxable and it really caught him off guard when he saw it on paper.