Multi-family investment and home hacking are both effective tactics.

These homes are cash only deals though.

It allows you to avoid the $7-12k cost associated with hard money loans (HML), which can improve your total ROI and cash-on-cash return.

A space someone could use as a home office & guest bedroom space.

I'm looking to deduct HELOC interest for costs related to making improvements on a primary home that is also used as a rental.

I am a 30 year old post grad with 20k saved up looking to either house hack in the 300k range or possibly use the 20k as down payment into a single family home for rental.

With many people working from home, it isn't uncommon to require tenants to be available for repairmen or appliance deliveries.

So we are faced with a tough choice: do we rent our home out and lose about $200 per month because of high HOA costs, OR do we sell and hopefully break even?

Find Brandon's videos on YouTube for the "four square" method of analyzing homes and practice.

Next came what I would call 'land speculation' (SDIRA purchases unimproved parcel and subdivides or does site improvements, then cashes out) followed by a distant last place - rental investment.