Perhaps a quick plane trip out this weekend to scope out the area or someone he knows that he can couch surf for a week or two when he gets here so he can get a lay of the land.

Unless I could convince him to couch surf, ha.

House hacking is when you rent out part of your property (couch, bedroom, garage, additional unit, etc) in order to off set you mortgage payment. 

I noticed the moving boxes and furniture (couch) smelled really bad of cigarette smoke. 

Technically you could rent out all the rooms and crash on the couch when you are in town.

Furniture wears and some things like couches need to be replaced every few years.

Most of newbies that has not purchased a property, has only 5% chance of purchasing, so I might just as well sit on a couch and watch tv than to spend time and money to bid on that job.

On top of that, it was $120/mo after 60 days - which I did think reasonable.I rented a 6 piece bedroom set and a small couch from rent-a-center

[I'm not sure if @Mic Nguyen has asked his lenders the right questions].

Hi everyone, I have a newbie question about pursuing a master lease option on a commercial property versus just paying cash for it.Briefly, the property is pretty inexpensive, hopefully we could get it for around $125k, which we have the cash to do (it wouldn't be just shaking out the couch cushions, but it's also not raiding our retirement funds or anything like that).