Quote from @Michael Paling: I'd always planned on my first investment to be house hacking a duplex.

@Michael Paling thank you for your response.

@Yang Zhuang4 family renovated can probably go between 1 to 1.5 million (depends of  the area, number of bedrooms per unit, age, etc.) in Bergen Lafayette.

Quote from @Michael Paling: I'm sure that my advice will vary depending on everyone's location but give your Housing Authority a call.

Installing submeter on the "back end" of the unit #1 is very easy and pales in comparison of the cost of SD water utility installing it for you as a separate meter. 

A $15,000 income while you are in school pales to a full time job making 4 to 10 times that after you graduate hopefully!

@Frank Yang For regular LLC you need to provide 1098 from Lender to brorrower.  

@Timothy Yang, are you looking to outsource every aspect of management or prefer to self-manage certain aspects? 

Most units only make sense between $40k-$60k/unit.  100% agreed, when I run my numbers of what's regularly advertised at a nice 10% cap rate on the MLS descriptions, it ends up coming up at a pale 7% almost all the

@Christopher Pearson BiggerPockets and REIA meetings and books can provide a good foundation, but in my mind, they pale in comparison to a good coach.