I don't know your specific market all that well but have you done some analysis on your ADR during the high season X your high season occupancy rate and determined whether taking lower priced slow season bookings vs letting your property stay vacant during the winter averages out in your favor?

Hey @Phillip Austin, With the popularity of house hacking in Denver, especially rent by the room, I think you'd be doing yourself a favor by offering rent by the room property management.

It offers affordable housing, solid rental demand, and generally favorable landlord laws.

The answer is yes, 2nd lien DSCR loans exist and more than one lender can do them, but you would probably have to up your credit score to be able to get up to a total of 75% ltv between 1st and second lienOtherwise, you would have to get lucky on a favorable appraisal.

If there is one thing I would do different is: I would invest Out Of State in markets that had sustained growth, strong job numbers, were safe and desired, and had favorable Landlord laws. 

Assumable VA loans are an excellent opportunity to secure favorable terms, but there are specific rules regarding who can assume these loans.

And, with Trump we know that policy is lower taxes and a more favorable climate for business.

or how exactly do you get them to vouch for you if they are in favor of the project?

Found this opportunity appealing based on positive cashflow/favorable cash-on-cash return.

Hi @Tim Holt I think in general house hacking is usually a good move because it gets you off the sidelines and into the game with the most favorable financing possible (30 year fixed).There's a lot of value in getting started today vs waiting some undefined number of years until conditions are better, which could be a long time from now, because real estate is a business and the sooner you start actually learning about that business, the better.With all that said, I always recommend that people analyze any potential house hack as a pure investment that they aren't going to live in, because someday they may want to move out and you should know up front (before you commit) whether you're going to be able to do that, or whether you're overpaying and will be stuck in the property unable to move out because it'll be cash flow negative if you do.So you had it exactly right when you wrote, "the property would need to cash flow when I move out and rent out all units."