Greetings from a fellow house-hacker. 

I put together a spreadsheet here to help potential house hackers quickly analyze whether or not a property qualifies.

I put together a spreadsheet here to help potential house hackers quickly analyze whether or not a property qualifies.

I'll defer to @Gene Hacker regarding your local meetups, but LA isn't all too far away.  

I put together a spreadsheet here to help potential house hackers quickly analyze whether or not a property qualifies.

I put together a spreadsheet here to help potential house hackers quickly analyze whether or not a property qualifies.There are other FHA requirements concerning which you should contact your local lender, but determining whether or not a triplex or fourplex meets the self-sufficiency rule is a good place to start as this rule will immediately eliminate many properties from your search, especially in expensive markets.

An experienced house hacker in a 4-plex who is also accounting savvy might give you a pretty good answer, but a CPA who handles lots of RE clients would be best.For FHA loans I think the PMI does not go away, but I could be wrong - most likely you will need to refinance at some point to get out of PMI.  

How have you house hackers handled this?

@Gene Hacker glad to make your acquaintance. 

https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521/topics/31...Michael Hacker will be there, and will be having his original meetup also on Thurs, 5/26.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521/topics/31...And a few other folks...