To stand on a person’s property and blatantly misrepresent to gain access is most agitating.

Plus the bar tends to be much lower, so it is much easier to stand out.

The only way to answer that in general (whether house hacking in today's market is still a good option) or for a particular property, is to learn how to run the numbers and analyze a specific property to see whether it will be able to stand on its own as an investment when you move out someday.There are a lot of resources here on BP for doing that but I'd just say, make sure the assumptions you're putting into your spreadsheet or deal analyzer are realistic.Make sure the rents (especially for vacant units or pro-forma #s) are realistic by doing your own rent comps; make sure the mortgage rate is realistic by doing some research online and/or talking to some mortgage folks; make sure insurance #s are realistic by getting a couple of quotes for the # of units and zip code / area you're looking in; etc.I hope that helps, and good luck 😊

My expectation is that they won't pay it, or ignore it altogether.Lastly, if they are actually able to prove your home was in such bad condition that it was uninhabitable, they may have a leg to stand on for early termination/abandonment.

If you don't double & triple check everything, you stand to lose money while the people promising you the world make money.  

For all of this, you do pay for all services (no free consults) but I stand by him and will tell you that you will pay less with him and get great service.

How certain of the appreciation are you would also play into that question.Run some scenarios on what you could do with the extra cash vs what you stand to gain from the appreciation play and decide based on that and your goals.

But the best course of action here is two fold: Visit your local REI groups.

neighbors fought us because it was a Timber stand ..

So spend NO money on advertising and use that money to make our product stand out.. this has led us to raise our prices Far above our competition more than makes up for it and we sell them as fast as we can build them.. for us thats delivering 2.5 homes per month.