There’s an endless supply of knowledge to be obtained and a book will never spam your inbox with the “invest that with my syndication, we’ve got guaranteed 20% returns!”

@Wesley W.It’s a gamble to accept a tenant who can’t confirm there income because of tips that are unreported on their taxes.  

I see it as a gamble, not a wise investment.  

I dont want to just spam it out cause I know that is not classy and its very annoying so I want to make certain I go about it the correct way.

While it's true your old home may appreciate, this is gamble much like the stock market and I would not consider this a conservative investing move if these are the only "assets" you have (now if you are sitting on $1M with good liquidity... well different story). 

It definitely felt like a gamble. 

I do NOT appreciate the spam from unsolicited calls of any kind.

If you want to learn and house hack, that's cool, just make sure you are buying a place that doesn't need obvious cap ex repairs in the near term, or you think it's going to appreciate and you wanna gamble. 

I, too am old enough to have lived through when these adjustable rate loans took you to a worse place than a fixed, however, now it seems no one really considers that an issue, I still say it's something of a gamble.

It's obviously a gamble when you deal directly with the listing agent as they are "making best attempt" to share their fiduciary duties.