@Phillip Austin someone who obviously should not rent but buy themselves a brand new house. what was their previous place?  

I found a house that I like to purchase in a great neighborhood and the exterior looks great for a 1922 stick built house.

Section 8, nice housing!

I don't think anyone predicted that.I've always thought for rentals it's better to buy a $250,000 house and hope for the chance it goes to $350,000 than buy a $500,000 house hoping it goes to $750,000. 

Sounds like the house is not local to you, OP.

Pittsburgh has to be one of the best markets for house hacking so we are definitely blessed.

-save $1k+ in taxes and fees yearly-can use the savings to get more insurance and a higher liability than the value of house. for flipping houses in California does anyone just put into sole proprietor own name and just use the $1k+ in savings for LLC costs into Insurance or use for savingor am I just being too risky. 

Quote from @Daniel Tanasa: Hello Terry, If you're looking to find houses that are in pre-foreclousure you can use a website like www.foreclosure.com and you can get the list of properties and start marketing to them. 

Not familiar with those markets, but here is my experience starting at 22 and what I regret after house hacking twice: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/922/topics/1133476-hous...

buy house  find renter rent house maintain house pray they pay rent and dont destroy it.