We have a client right now that I can not name, but if lookup the top 5 organizations in residential housing, there on that list, an absolute TITAN, and no we do NOT do anything like this even for them....

Our long-term plan is to eventually move out, rent both units, and buy a house of our own.

How hard is it to find a property to house hack in New York?

If you have just one long-term tenant in your house hack duplex, and you're taking a $30,000 guru course on making money from assisted living or storage facilities or on running a syndication - it is probably not deductible under Section 162. 

I’m just starting out and want to house hack through small multi families.

Unfortunately, the vast of them have houses and other buildings or improvements on them so I can't compare the public records. 

Every house is different and every owner is different.

Here are my initial thoughts:-Making the offer contingent on seller showing me background check documents from their due diligence-Requesting for a walkthrough of the property after the offer is made, and reserving the right to pull the offer if the house is not maintained wellAre these ideas practical?

The consequences are: family member comes along and sues or seller sues and gets the house back in court.

We’d also like to buy a house to move into in the near future and of course dropping $100k of savings into property 2 would delay that.