Hey, I'm a new investor in the twin cities, I have made two offers on duplexes in Minneapolis in the past two weeks, both went with other offers so I'm still working on my first deal, aggressively :)  I move out of my apartment in March, and the plan is to house hack.  

@Faith E.If you join meetup.com and eventbrite, they can show you meetings on any given week. 

A recent post that I wrote discussed exit strategies on a property that we’re converting from a 2 bd/1 bth to a 5 bd/3 bth. Now, we just purchased another property right down the street. This property also has multipl...

I'm acquiring bids from several local GC's and should have those within a week or so.

This is surface level, as every deal has its own specifics, but.......I have seen a handful of portfolio loans (which is what you are describing) come through our lending platform in the last few weeks.  

There was also a water line for a refrigerator..... maybe someone forgot this is a 469 sq ft tiny house and fancy pants fridges with on demand water and ice take up precious floor space (and if they don't they are frigging expensive).Slightly annoyed, but still impressed.Then I swung by a week later.

I get a snotty return text (at least that's how I read it as you can't really read a time in a text) essentially saying they hadn't received the unemployment check yet for the last two weeks of August and since I wouldn't let them make payments and wanted payment in full . . .  

If it IS a separate bill in your area then yes, definitely include it as an expense, and the 'other expense' category would be a good place.You want to include ANY expense you might incur - I was watching a webinar last week from the archives and it was interesting how a couple things that I dont deal with; flood insurance, garage & water/sewer (tenants pay in my area) completely changed one of Brandon's deals he was looking at from pretty good to just break even. 

I'm sure like most of us on here we want financial freedom that our 40 hour a week counterparts wish to have as well.

I charge $200/week for the first 4 occupied beds in 3 of the above houses.