@Mitchell PetroskyHere is a structured approach to house hacking, including getting pre-approved for a loan, identifying an ideal investment property, building a trusted team, researching and making offers, managing the property effectively, and overcoming common challenges.

If it's two mortgages, how common is it for a bank to do two at once for a new investor?

Is it just a matter of reaching out to GCs and asking for a list of generalized estimates for common rehab work?

I'm thinking Sherwin Williams Alabaster (SW 7008) and white windows, and it's fairly common and well reserved in our region.

The goal is to get off of the spreadsheet and move to a common sense, "what makes my life better?"

I have a nice hi-rise condo unit and I get tons of companies asking if I do MTRs for Visiting Nurses, Tech Professionals, etc.My place is positioned near a number of large DC Metro Hospitals, but since covid work-from-home and recent lift of Eviction Moritorium, I have had few people with jobs, but a ton of people recently evicted looking to rent my place.The one viable group - visiting nurses has been excluded because my HOA will not allow short or mid-term rentals (anything less than one year is a No-No).They claim too many transient tenants cause excessive wear and tear on the property and too many people using resources like the gym, or pool or common areas.I think that's a lot of horse waste!

Thanks for the info, yea it's a pretty common theme in the podcast and such world.

I should have clarified some of the things you pointed out though as that is common practice buying a STR anywhere to verify what permits you need and how to operate legally in the city.

Here's are some other common terms for House Hacking -> Room Sharing, Owner-Occupied Rental.

The illegal in-law units/ADUs are somewhat common in the Bay Area - many people with paid off properties are collecting under the table rent money without reporting it to the IRS.