Here’s some advice to help you get started on the right foot in the Austin market:Understand the Market: Austin is a dynamic and competitive market with a mix of tech-driven professionals, students, and long-term residents.

A lot of my friends and other new grad young professionals seem to congregate in areas like Midtown and lower Manhattan or in Williamsburg/Bushwick and Downtown Brooklyn.I know house hacking isn't impossible in NYC, but my most ideal areas with people my age and high traffic are also everyone else's ideal places to live, and are much harder to house hack.

Eventually, I got my footing and figured out my niche.

So at a minimum we are in units twice a month and keep our eyes on stuff really closeI go out after hours and sit blacked out at my properties to see if there is any traffic that there should not be!

I've managed to house hack my way to owning a fully paid-off 2-bedroom, 1-bath, 900-square-foot home valued at approximately $67,500.

I immediately emailed the landlord and property manager that I agree with their decision (i haven’t stepped my foot on this property, don’t even have a key.)

Get your foot in the door by offering a commission above market, like 4% of the first year's rent.3.

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Context: My husband and I purchased this property with the intent of running it as a residential assisted living home. It is already equipped with a fire suppression system and monitoring. For personal reas...

As long as you are prepared to spend $10-20 per square foot to furnish (depending on how high end you want to go), then a $500 dumpster rental and a Facebook marketplace listing solve your problem.

This has always been the case, but the industry is taking strides to make it more fluid.Investor Sellers can choose to pay some or all of the buyer's agent commission (that's not new) but this can no longer be advertised through the local MLS AND this must go through the seller to the agent versus through the listing agent like it did in the past.Investor buyers must be signed with an agent to step foot in listed homes.