Nobody really pushes the strategy of buying single family homes and paying them off (besides Chad Carson and a few others who are awesome), but 2-5 paid off single family homes are probably pretty life changing. 

If the numbers work and your life situation allows, rinsing and repeating every year is a great strategy with this type of house hacking. 

My other side would say "If you want to control your life, pay the cost, take the risk, buy your own house and have two bathrooms" but that isn't nice, so I try to stick to my pleasant negotiator side. ;-)

I guess nothing fully prepares you but life experience and the school of hard knocks!

Of course I am connecting with contractors in real life in my area, but also looking to leverage the experience of the Bigger Pockets community online.

Enjoy life until then.Always remember you'll regret impulsive things.

This is an exciting start of life-long journey I'm pursuing in real estate.

You are not the entity itself - but the entity itself cannot take any real word action without a human (at least with technology today!)

Would be so helpful to see a real-life recommendation, I'm having lots of trouble getting good feedback elsewhere online.

If you owned a property with a broken stairwell where someone trips and falls, got incapacitated for life, why would their damages be restricted to $170K.