Was hoping to use my VA benefits to buy a home between 1500-2000 square feet but with 3 bedrooms or less in hopes of adding another bedroom to force appreciation.

A beautiful newly renovated 2 bedroom apartment where i will be living with my husband and daughter and a 5 bedroom unit next door (also newly renovated) with 2 bathrooms that we plan to rent by the room.

It sounds cool to house hack but you can keep staying where you are now and rent also the 3rd master bedroom, I assume you pay less than $1500 for a 1 to 3 bedroom now, so by staying where you are now you can cash flow positive and stay in a comfortable non roommates situation.

Examples: I take a refundable pet deposit instead of a non-refundable one or a monthly fee, I currently pay the whole water bill without taking money from tenants because the duplex is watered together (I will eventually get a separate meter but the outlay is more than I want to pay right now) assuming it doesn't get out of control, paid for the new doorknobs on the bedrooms because the tenants requested locks despite the lead tenant saying they would pay for it, planning to replace the microwave hood simply because it's louder than it should be though it still works, etc.I'm probably losing out on a minimum of $100 monthly.

I had a guy call in on my show, The Cardone Zone, and tell me I owned $ 100,000 equity in a three-bedroom house with a family of five.

(I just had clients close on a 6-bedroom house nearish downtown Denver.

It is a 3 bedroom but one of the bedrooms was only accessible from the main living area through another bedroom.

Renovated the spare bedroom.

For one- and two-bedroom apartments from 550 to 1,100 square feet, the study suggested rents from $925 to $1,800 per month.

My first rental.This 3 bedroom, 2 bath home provides 1329 sqft of living space and a lot of 8,968 sqft.