rent out all the bedrooms to your friends. 

To offset costs, I’m planning to buy a duplex and pursue a house-hacking strategy:1.Rent out one unit as a long-term rental.2.Live in the other unit and rent out the bedrooms as short-term rentals (STRs) through a furnished rental approach.Before diving in, I have a couple of questions:1.Can I use a property for both short-term and long-term rentals?

Since your building, I'd go a little bigger and make it at least a 3 bedroom 2 bath so that it appeals to a wider audience. 

Each bedroom has a electronic combo lock. 

While the traditional approach involves buying a multi family property, living in one unit and renting out the other - with rising prices and interest rates; others have considered renting out bedrooms as unit spaces. 

Also depends on if you have strata/condo fees or HOA.The cash flow on my places are all over the place and yet I'm fine with all of the rentals for different reasons. 

I wanted to share the numbers and want to make sense if it's a good deal for us according to what we are looking for.Price: $450k (agent said that we can get it down to $420k)2 Units (1 bedroom in each unit)Mortgage with 3 year fixed comes up to around $2.3kInsurance and tax is roughly $400Rent per unit is $1.4k so if we move out then total rent comes up to $2.8kThere's a detached ADU (garage) that can give us another $100-$150 if we rent it for storage and there's a scope of converting it into another unit later on.So currently rough calculation says that it can cashflow up to $300 per month.

From what I’ve read on BP, the city of Alexandria seems to be friendly towards STRsI would then also potentially rent out one of the upstairs bedrooms as a MTR or LTR.

Success:  Signing a deal with First WatchFailure: Bought a retail condo, not realizing the low ceilings were such a deal breaker for a lot of tenants.Pain: A lot of turnover this year, especially in light industrialAha moment:  Mortgage note investing needs to be a larger part of my portfolio2025 Goals: Less Investing and more pickleball!

My cabins (1 to 5 bedrooms, all with views, and all except the 1 bedroom is further from town) are still performing well and most are on track to meet or exceed 2023 returns.The days of buying and everything running easy with people filling your dates and throwing cash at you are over.