Very creative, but solid.This also may offer the potential for you to keep your other home and rent it out as an asset, but that's between you and the investor who buys your aunts home to subsequently rent it back to you. 

We offered asking price to begin with to actually get our hand on the deal.

Finding a lender that offers a HELOC on an investment property can be a bit challenging, but it's definitely possible.

They also tend to offer good cash flow relative to their cost, especially in areas with high demand for affordable housing.

If there is any advice you have to offer,  I'm all ears.

The project took 6-7 months, and while we made $143,585 when we sold the house for $560,000, we could have made close to the same amount in a few weeks with less hassle.The big takeaway?

My husband & I really appreciated the bakery goods, not only because they were tasty but because they left the address for us so we could continue delighting in the offerings.

Not only does it have excellent potential as a house hack, but it also offers significant upside for a live-in flip.

If you guys can just give me a week or so ( wife and I just had baby #2 ), I will set up a virtual meet up and look into doing one in person about a month out from now.

It must have taken him weeks, months....