I've been house hacking for the last several years. 

Come to find out his wife's dad had a career in real estate, his friend works at a firm as a private lender (that's how he got started), the houses were 50k houses and half of them were trailers...His personal house, while large was in the middle of nowhere...You can see the focus shifted from real estate investing to social media marketing.

Are there any house plan websites that are specifically geared toward investors for spec homes?

Are you house hacking?

It has private entrance but is attached to house and is not private really so it is basically a glorified room for rent with a living room.

A local charity wants to rent my SFH in order to house up to 3 patients along with a 24 hr staff. 

If the house is paid off, that takes away a lot of pressure.

It protects the asset (the house/property) that the loan is on.   

The ability to house hack with a separate living space How did you find this deal and how did you negotiate it?

I have owned and rented a house in New Orleans the past 3 years.