I'm open to house hacking, but would like to be able to float the rent if I can't fill the room.

For remodels of this nature consider the Schluter floating floor system.

I could float that property 100% without it hurting me at all.  

There are some maps floating around with good information surrounding outlining areas by risk.

It's interesting to hear all the new proposals floating around in Seattle.

You can't refinish them and when they float them they look fake to me.

One of them even gave me more than 100% so that I had enough $ to float the deal through to the end.

I hope you can give your thoughts in my situation.The current mortgage in my resident home is 2.2% 5ARM (loan amount $160k), which will be floating rate in July, and we plan to refinance it to avoid it.

The only thing you need to make sure with your contractor is that they are licensed and insured (duh) and that they are able to float the construction costs for the initial start of construction etc.

I hope you can give your thoughts in my situation.The current mortgage in my resident home is 2.2% 5ARM (loan amount $160k), which will be floating rate in July, and we plan to refinance it to avoid it.