I will do a significant part of the renovations myself with previous skills developed (framing walls, running wires and finished electrical, laying the vinyl myself | drywall, texture, two exterior window installations, sawing out the tile for the wall, and hanging one door will be done by someone else).

Common fees will include a set-up fee, leasing fee for each turnover or a lease renewal fee, marking up maintenance, retaining late fees, and more.

I hit a wall for cleaning services, how can i calculate the monthly service fee when budgeting because in my area it depends on the size and i dont have any property yet to use as a reference.

Multifamily properties can still readily be found in the sub $400,000 price point in decent areas that also retain high rental demand

See Facebook group for more info “Why ICF Construction is Best for Real Estate Investors” These are slab homes with a frost wall, ICF has its place in many situations but this isn’t one of them, I do concrete for a living and have access to regular aluminum forms 

To answer your question retaining to the house hacking, I'm fortunate enough to be in a position to rent both units.

For starters; -I would like to attempt to merge the lots together since the building shares a wall and attempt to reclassify it as a multifamily rather then two stand alone single families, if possible.

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.+$80k each side this year but after sinking $14k into  furniture and the wall decor to give it a strong “beach house” feel.  

It was a duplex that required full rehab (roof, siding, new retaining wall...cosmetic rehab upstairs with HVAC, kitchen, bath & deck...downstairs got cosmetics with new kitchen & bath with mini-splits for HVAC)3.