I don't know a single person who regrets starting out with a quad and house hacking.

Does anyone here have any idea (based on data), if the home prices will be going up or down in 2025?

Got any other ideas or use cases you’d like me to test?

Just ideas, talk to your CPA to make sure you are doing it properly. 

I really want to do local meetups and interact with more advanced investors but don’t know where to start.

They lady started almost yelling "If you have your bank investigate we will send them the screen shots we sent you".

I would like to start investing in real estate once I get situated down there.

I was playing with the idea of selling my condo, taking 300k of the equity to put a down payment towards a house listed at 660k.I'm assuming the reno will run $300/sqft and going in with the assumption that phase 1 will run 750k (figure the expansion of the house will have to wait) for the gut reno.I assume/hope (but definitely not banking on) that I will be able to refi in 2-3 years at a lower interest rate; if not for a lower rate.This will likely be a family home for the next 5-10 years at LEAST so investment value isn't quite at top of mind ATM.Questions:Even if it's not for lower interest rate, do you feel it's advisable to refi to remove the 203 loan in the future?

@Daniel HymanThanks for the idea but another problem I have with using the government internet is a lot of things on websites don't work because of the firewall and network settings so when I try to apply for the account it just doesn't go to anything.

When you do this long enough, you get an idea of what a tester asks about or they start digging.