I always say if you have $15,000-$50,000 buy a house, buy a condo, learn from experience, it will be more valuable learning on the job and in the end you have a piece of real estate.   

Purchase price: $690,000 Cash invested: $35,000 Contributors: Daniel McDonald After years of research and a few months of searching, I finally house hacked a two-family in Peabody!

I love real estate, but kinda hate houses.

I helped clients secure this off-market new construction house-hacking deal in Wisconsin What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

Single house?

The chances are high you will meet other house flippers that can offer insight. 

It depends on where you live, but the places I have, the water bill is tied to the house vs electric or cable which is tied to the tenant-so if the tenant doesn't pay the electric bill, they have problems when they move and try to get it at their next place.What I do for my places in BC is pay the water bill directly and then send my tenants the bill.

We believe that sustainable housing is a part of sustainability as a whole and restoring once great spaces back to their former glory for others to enjoy and live. 

There are companies out there that handle everything in house from buying the property, to renovating it themselves, selling to an investor and managing themselves.

Before the late 1970s there were no real estate gurus, no real estate investment courses, no house flipping TV programs, no real estate get rich books, no real estate investment clubs, and what experience the general public had about real estate was limited to buying their personal residence.