I’m looking to house hack with an FHA loan to decrease my living expenses and get my foot in the door with real estate investing.

It depends on your unique situation, finances, real estate goals, the breakdown of this particular deal, etc...What was the deciding factor for my wife and I was that the pain we were going through was temporary.

In your case, that's Boston, but if that is only temporary, I'd be focused on buying where you're going to live before prices continue to go up. 

This number decreases the longer I stay in a market because I'm generating more leads and closing deals off of follow-up.You can replace cold calling with SMS, direct mail, SEO, Facebook ads, etc.

Model:Find a family wanting to buy a home and have them rent in a multifamily with the other tenants just renting for a temporary living situation.

I guess that is possible if the temporary debt ceiling is not raised again in Dec (but also unlikely since 100% of the time in the past, the feds have raised it as opposed to defaulting).If there was any major downward pressure on RE pricing, I would halt fix and flips until the dust settled.

Will work on decreasing overall expenses by addressing repairs and maintenance while stabilizing the property in the first few months.

But in 2019 that same place might have been more like $80k-$90k so if we get back to those levels you would be in trouble.So it really comes down to whether you believe the vacation rental boom is a temporary outlier or if you believe vacation travel has fundamentally changed.  

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There was another decrease from the preceding month but a strong continued increase from the previous year’s numbers.The City of Austin saw a change in median home price from $540,000 to $525,000, a month to month decrease of $15,000 but still a 28% increase from the previous year.