Quote from @Scott MacComb: I am doing my first true house flip (have remodeled plenty of houses for rental) and am trying to figure out a contract to use with a new general contractor whom I have not worked with previously. 

You can make house hacking work anywhere, really.

House hacking is a great way to get started.

Single-gender homes are only for transitional housing (like soberliving houses, halfway houses, etc). 

I want to purchase my sisters house as my first investment.

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?

I just bought 5 houses in 5 days in 3 states, 1 of the states I never bought property before. 

While I can imagine some cities might be against "boarding houses" or enforce their "brothel law" I can't imagine too many cities would be supportive of it. 

Detached HousesWhen in doubt, consider the tried-and-true detached single-family house.

What the city housing clerk is telling me is that there was a water leak from behind the sink pedestal on the second floor bathroom that has been running for a week.