The property is a top/bottom duplex that would be suitable for a house hacker or an investor.

I was thinking about this the other day, and I got a question from a user about using a property manager to manage my house-hacked duplex.It's my opinion that it would be quite silly to use a property manager as a house-hacker.

I put together a spreadsheet here to help potential house hackers quickly analyze whether or not a property qualifies.

I put together a spreadsheet here to help potential house hackers quickly analyze whether or not a property qualifies.There are other FHA requirements concerning which you should contact your local lender, but determining whether or not a triplex or fourplex meets the self-sufficiency rule is a good place to start as this rule will immediately eliminate many properties from your search, especially in expensive markets.Good luck!

I put together a spreadsheet here to help potential house hackers quickly analyze whether or not a property qualifies.

One way is to buy a place that had three or four units under one roof and I thought I could get a "house hacker" loan so I could et a lower down payment. 

I've heard it from house hackers who move-out 2 years later to discover they have a high-end unit (the one they lived in) amongst their remaining moderate units. 

I started off as a house hacker myself and now own over 30 properties. 

@Michael Hacker Do follow up with us.

This makes things very easy once you move out of the unit you're in (as most house hackers eventually do).