my opinion is, if you can pay cash for it (not off line of credit) then fine, but if you are leveraged 80% on everything including your house, its a poor choice, now if you have paid for assets with lines in place and a stock pile of cash, do what you want.  

They are stockpiling food, seeds, tools, and of course guns and ammo.

I get plenty of offers now that I don't really need them, but I'm stockpiling the checks just in case ;) They usually expire within 60 days though.

The Atomic Energy Agency stated that Iran's 1,010 kilogram stockpile of enriched uranium are required to make a nuclear bomb.

I have a huge stockpile of boxes of tile, fixtures, and other stuff I hope I'll use eventually.

As for me, I'm just going to sit back, keep stockpiling cash, and wait for the carnage so I can pick up some killer deals!

I'm positioning for a correction in the next 24 months, and I'm stock pilling cash to prepare for it.

Rather than invest they simply stockpile cash in real estate.

It is to amass a stockpile of liquidity (*Financial Runway*) that creates options.

I think house hacking is a great strategy to lower ones expenses while paying down mortgage debt and that it works well in an appreciating market allowing the owner to sell the home in a couple of years without paying taxes all while stockpiling savings from the rents of the tenants.