Amazed at how much I am saving by living rent free, I looked into ways to live rent free besides my mom's and discovered house hacking!

Be aware that though owner occupancy is a great way to get a lower interest rate and live "rent free."

Eventually I want to get a duplex in NYC to live/ rent out.

As a house-hack, you might be able to live rent free with a fourplex, but that may not be easy.

I'm looking for a live/rent duplex in Denver and following the BP Analysis guide.

We personally prefer to collect our rents every month from our tenants vs. some sort of electronic payment system because it gives us the opportunity to humanize the way we deal with our tenants and it gives us the opportunity to be more friendly and allow our tenants to tell us about their personal and maintenance issues e.g. tenants will tell forewarn us about health issues e.g. we've had several tenants who had liver problems and they expected to pass away within a few months.

Thus, a larger single-family home would bring in the cash flow necessary to live rent free while house hacking, thus maybe forcing me into the SFR realm. 

I understand finding a deal is work (and I've been looking) but I was just curious if anyone has recently been able to get an FHA loan for a multi-family unit in the area to live/rent.

Here is the way I am looking at things, this person living there can just not pay for rent and pretty much live rent free.

For the Zillow link, see below:Link: https://www.zillow.com/homedet...Our goal is to live rent-free in our first property.