Yes you could buy 1 house cash for $500,000, or you could buy $2,500,000 in real estate with 20% down.When the market appreciates 20%, one would yield you $100,000 while the other would yield you $500,000.This also doesn't calculate the increased cash on cash return you will get with increased rents across all of your properties rather than 1. 

Hi BP Crew,Piggybacking on the house hack question.

Real estate investing is like exploring a new world, and it's awesome that you're diving into strategies like BRRRR and house hacking.

House hacking has been my approach here, otherwise the numbers don't really work.

Both houses are new construction that was completed a couple of weeks ago.

I have been trying to think through how a surging population (via immigration) will impact housing. 

So all in, including some priority repairs we'd want to do aside from the basement, we're looking at about $750k on this house. 

https://www.biggerpockets.com/filesI have uploaded my own spreadsheet file to my BP Fileplace which has an analyzer and estimator tool if you want to check it out:https://www.biggerpockets.com/files/user/drobertson/file/house-flipping-spreadsheet-6-lite

Wife and I are supposed to be closing on a house 6/4 here in Frisco TX.

The home is spacious enough to house 11 young college students; at a local growing private college.