A house hack via FHA can get a 4 unit and a basement, which would be ideal and create major cash flow and equity creation, plus you can not worry about a property manager and boost your yield.Personally, I am very bullish on New York and NYC itself.

Hello, my name is Garrett and I am looking to house hack in Maryland.

I have a pending offer on my first investment property, a 4 bed 2 bath duplex in Indianapolis that I will house hack.

I plan on house hacking the multi family unit.

Hello fellow BP members! I am considering purchasing a one door, 5 bdrm house in Invermere BC and am looking for input on whether my plan is do-able: I want to purchase for $500k, put 5% down ($25k), (making the mortg...

Use that same 3% to buy a multifamily in Westchester/upstate ny/Fairfield and use the cash flow to rent a small apt in nyc (basically house hacking). 1. 

@Sara Weber I've done two house hacks on two duplexes so far and my experience and learning has been to stick with conventional if all possible.

The whole house hacking thing wouldn’t work for me now since I have a family.

FHA will require that you occupy the property for a year but for the next house hack property you could use Freddie Mac Home Possible financing (5% down) for another 2-4 unit.

Purchase price: $327,500 Cash invested: $20,000 This was my first house hack.