but you will certainly eliminate some of the geographical and consolidation risks.

We have come up with a plan and have started working on it.Our plan isn't very complicated, or so we believe it to not beWe want to buy our first home as a  3-4 unit using the house hack method with an FHA by living in one unit and renting the other two primarily to eliminate rent.

Saving the interest on the loan isn't a gain either...it's just eliminating an expense. 

In my experience, washing everything (walls, baseboards, doors, cabinets, etc.) from waist height and down will usually eliminate the odor.

That usually helps eliminate most of these pains we go through having to vet companies ourselves.Hope this helps!

I see people posting all kinds of strategies just assuming that one can easily obtain financing (seemingly endlessly), but my debt to income ratio is high and it seems to eliminate me from contention.For context, I currently have two 30 year fixed rate mortgages that I took out 7 and 8 years ago, respectively, worth about $385K put together, on two rental properties worth at least $1.1M combined.

If you say "uhm" a lot or are afraid of having silence, then you definitely need to eliminate that though lol.

Eliminate the hassle that your contractor has to go through.

Finally, house hacking can be life changing by eliminating or reducing your living expense.

Sometimes it's going to take lots of trial and error before you find the source and eliminate the problem.