Hey everybody, I am planning to buy my first investment property in the form of a house hack in the next year and a half.

Getting rent right is the easiest part of being a landlord.

I considered one exit strategy if this doesn’t work after a couple years, which would involve selling fractional shares of the unit while keeping half of them myself in hopes, the sale of the fractional shares would offset the existing mortgage and maybe put us in a winning position.

In my book, when you use questionable marketing practices and half-truths on a systematic basis, pretend that you have the interest of the buyer's at heart when in reality you get your pay from and therefore have your interests aligned with those of the developer (and only mention it in the small print that nobody sees because you legally have to), you can't be trusted on anything.Again, I hate to be the party pooper and I hope you'll do as well as you can but I think it not sharing this would be a disservice to the BP community.

They get half when they start, and if they haven't finished the work in two days, I'll never ask them to do anything for me again.  

This was the easiest mortgage process I’ve ever experienced.

If you sell right away, you can then keep half the profits (or whichever percentage you like) as a reserve and purchase your second with the remaining funds.

The disadvantage of bird-dogging it would be that bird-dog fees could be smaller, maybe a few thousand dollars but it would be the fastest, easiest, least risky thing to do.

Unique half-acre Cul-de-sac home in Port Saint Lucie 2100 square feet of living space under air, crown molding accents.

Quickbooks is the market share leader when it comes to accounting / bookkeeping.The reason this can be considered important is that if you need an accountant to review, make corrections, transfer the accounting to a third-party, it would be easiest with quickbooks.The desktop version will be more affordable than the online version.Best of luck.