Hi Delroy,Congrats on your first house hack—what a great start!

It’s a little more work to set up, but if you get a solid property manager, it’s not as scary as it sounds.If I were you, I’d keep digging into the Capitol region, NJ, and CT—compare the numbers, and maybe even start building connections with agents or wholesalers in those areas.

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its unfortunately not going to be as easy as googling, but that might get you a list to start with and refine.  

But if you have assets or income, you might end up $36k worse than you were before you started.

Sadly, both of them escalated this conflict and started creating domestic disturbances so we had to move both of them out.Assuming the upstairs family is being reasonable, I suspect no matter what you do, the people downstairs will never be happy.  

If that's the case, you'll want to start with a fix and flip (or hold) type of loan, complete your renovations, get it rented out and THEN refinance into a DSCR loan for a long term hold. 

Rabya, do you have experience with STR or you're looking to get started in MTR only?

What would be the very first steps to get started? 

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