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3 February 2025 | 8 replies
I'm from Leesburg, and I can tell you—multi-family is a solid choice (piggybacking the previous comments which I agree 💯), especially with that live-in/rent-out, house hack strategy.
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30 January 2025 | 13 replies
It's an acreage property near the lake that has a main house (2/1), guest house (3/2), and small studio-layout unit (3 units on same property).
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4 February 2025 | 11 replies
I found an area I felt comfortable living in and I bought a house with an FHA loan.
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6 February 2025 | 1 reply
If house hacking isn't the best option for me, how would you recommend starting out to build up some investments.
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6 January 2025 | 2 replies
Hey BP Family,A neighbor of mine passed away about 2 months ago and I have been trying to contact the family (trust) to see if they were going to be selling the property. I don't want to overstep because the gentleman...
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1 February 2025 | 17 replies
Single-gender homes are only for transitional housing (like soberliving houses, halfway houses, etc).
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7 February 2025 | 6 replies
You mentioned student housing - What schools are they near?
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29 January 2025 | 10 replies
If you are just getting started here in Chicago, house hacking is the ideal situation.
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1 February 2025 | 1 reply
Hello i bought a house for 75000$ and can get a loan on it for 155,000$ My question is hypothetically if i were to only get a 20,000 Loan From the 155,000$ loan and never pay it would they foreclose on my property and i would loose it for not paying the 20,000 Loan?
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6 February 2025 | 8 replies
**For context I house hacked for about a year after she passed away but couldn't live in that house anymore and sold it.