Sometimes it’s surrendering the ability to get your money back at all… see this thread on Norada Capitalhttps://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/960/topics/1196567-nora...Unrelated to any investment I have made or even real estate, I have watched both my parents fall victim to clever marketing scams where they lost a combined 6 figure sums - both from in person marketed investments… so not something like a phone scam… but was a private placement “opportunity” not unlike how a syndications are offered, where management siphoned off investor money and used it for their own purposes.   

Also you can go to my old website harveyproperty.com or YouTube and watch my videos. 

.- From that point forward I have still watched Peters videos, however I now look at it from a different perspective and question whether he actually has real CRE experience or if he's just a "teacher" trying to scam/con people into forking over $15K.

Keep renting it out, start to increase the rents, and continue to watch it appreciate.2.

I stumbled upon BP while watching a podcast on youtube.

FRAUDSTER ALERT... watch out for Justin Nguyen in Florida, stealing lenders $ for his own gambling addiction.

Red flags to watch for in a house hack deal include high vacancy rates in the area, poor property conditions, or unexpected zoning restrictions.

But there are definitely some things to watch out for.

I'm in a space to do some house hacking, and am under the general (unresearched, unless you count years of Zillow watching) opinion that my local rental market is healthy.

With new builds you have to watch for developers building in TI's with inflated rents on the resale.