I wish I had another work around for you, but I actually stopped using my business CC all together just to avoid the PITA "hacks" they offered as solutions. 

It would be his primary residence so most likely a duplex or triplex house hack. 

Hello Guys,

As someone who’s built sales funnels for marketing agencies, I’ve been diving into strategies that could work specifically for wholesalers—and I wanted to share a few ideas that might help you streamlin...

My girlfriend and I are looking to get into Multifamily real estate investing and have looked into the possibility of house hacking, although a good property for it seems to be tough but not impossible in this area.  

@Gabriella Swan, with your management experience already in place, house hacking seems like a perfect entry into real estate.

You could also buy a single family property that you can either fix and flip or house hack.

Goal here is to use the VA's 0% down on a multiplex and rent out the unit I'm living in after 12m.
The mental gymnastics I'm going through is how exactly that would work without committing fraud.
Can I refinance m...

One is house hacking. 

I love that you have specific goals for 2025 - I believe if we think it, write it, say it, and share it our goals are 10x more likely to come to fruition.Are you able to do option 2 and just house hack a 2-4 unit building and use a renovation loan which allows you to put down 3.5-5%I highly suggest getting to some local chicago meetup groups (we have an in person one on the 17th)...here is BPs list: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521-real-estate-events-...I also have a full list of the chicago meetups that I can share with you too if that'd be helpful.

I need to update my deal profile but I moved here 2020 first buying a house hack and then slowly buying one rental a year until the last year and a half.