Since house flipping has become so popular over the past few years, it's never been more critical to give your projects that extra *POP* that homebuyers will notice as they're swiping through Zillow. 

Most people assume that house hacking means living in a 2 bedroom 1 bath duplex.

Our strategy has always been BRRRR, and we live in a historically cash-flow** market. 

@Michael Goddard Moving forward add to your posts where you live and/or where you intend to invest.

I have lived in Hawaii for many years but now that I’m a traveling healthcare provider, I am off island more often than not.When I’m not on contract I would love to have a place to return to and when I’m away I would love to rent it out for some additional income.

For example it is my understanding that Big Bear allows it but whoever is managing the property has to live within 1 hour of the property. 

I live in western washington. 

My wife and I live in Easley & invest in this area.

I'm originally from the area and have been starting to look at some properties there as I am living in New Jersey.

You should have, or you should create an amortization table that shows the actual interest paid on the $650k mortgage for the first 6 months while you lived there.