Househacking is so powerful since you can lower your largest expense (rent), while learning to be a landlord and building equity.

I'm not sure what he thinks is powering this house!

@Benjamin SulkaThis one was mostly cosmetic: paint, carpet/floors, light fixtures, trim, landscape clean up, rodent remediation, bathroom vanities in the 1/2 baths, and some of the windows.Rehabbed one unit at the time aside from the windows.

If you have a few years of revenue for the EIN, if the books are clean you'll be able to get a mortgage as long as the revenue supports the loan.

Brown had edit power over the site at the time of its creation.

Aligning with a mortgage lender that puts their clients first pays off when the going gets tough..and it always gets tough no matter how 'clean' the borrower.

We also spoke with the unwanted guest's probation officer who told us he had his hands tied and couldn't force the unwanted guest to leave my rental.Based on all of this information, we decided to give the main tenant one last chance to clean up his act as we felt bad kicking out an old veteran with a dog in the winter.

I pay $60 for each time she comes out to clean the tub and put chemicals in.

Early termination fee, which is one month of rent plus the deposit, assuming there's no damages, and they walk away clean.2.

Probably biggest mistake was how long we took cleaning it out.