By adopting the house-hacking method—living in one unit while renting out the others—we plan for the tenants to cover the mortgage and gain valuable property management experience.

In California, where I live, it could take a long time.

MTR attracts a lot of traveling medical professionals and WFH individuals who need a quiet space during the day, which may not be compatible with families living in the attached LTR.

In the case if I don't receive a new address, I'd probably send the letter to my property where the tenant was living and let USPS mail forward the letter. 

My ultimate goal is to save up enough money to invest in a fix and flip property(which my family has been doing for a while) and live in it, until I rent it out and use the equity for another home.For any real estate agents or professionals in general, how do you find consistant deals?

The inventory is still a little low in Northern NJ, but I've managed to assist many people from the BP community with finding deals that work for them. 

I've been living JC for 15+ years and have some investment properties in Guttenberg.

We also run a residential assisted living mastermind to help entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses.

@Kevin Collins you are asking for advice and I am taking time out of my day to actually give you a different view point in an attempt to help and assist you but you are upset it doesn't quite conform and confirm your thoughts in the way you expected. 

You can probably just go ahead and live in that 5th unit, but I believe whenever you go to refinance it with a bank or what not, the 5th unit will make it require a commercial loan and not residential regardless of what the county records show the property to be.