Even looking at the balanced rate (which I feel like is hard because the terms are different) along with the potential to have the monthly payment/fees covered, it feels like a cash out is a better option if we did want to keep this.Part of the current struggle is that the market was hit harder from the rate increase so sales are almost at a standstill and even with trying to sell the house, the rental market is doing substantially better because most military cannot afford to purchase in this area as the payments are over 6k/mo for buying vs 3-4k/mo for renting.Any advice is most appreciated!

I won't feel good until I hit 100 and so far I have 25.

Feel free to shoot me some specific questions if you want some help.

And if you have any suggestions/advice for someone who's just getting into house hacking please feel free to put them down.

I feel like you should be able to customize the mortgage section of this calculator but I can't figure out how to adjust my payments to the amount I agreed on with the seller. 

Many California tenants know the law better than the landlords and they have free access to legal assistance.

Same thing with your HELOC, if it's a $0 payment, it's a $0 impact.Not discouraging the purchase by any means, but food for thought: "There's no free lunch" if you're getting a below market rate from the builder that's getting paid for in the purchase price.

There were 7000 in 2020.In BTR communities, think about what do we want to charge them for vs. what do we want to give them for free?

consider the opportunity cost of doing this#1) sell house for cash or to a buyer with their own financing from a bank, etc and you get 315K at time zero, you invest that at historic SP500 8.4% return over last 220 yrs and it grows to $3,541,514.46#2) do owner financing and you get 100k up front that invested at 8.4% grows to $1,250,000, plus you get your payments at $1400 x 360 months or $502k, invested grows to $3,265,000 total including the 1.25 mil aboveso you come out 300k better not doing it and you don't have to service the loan and all the other risksremember banks don't even carry mortgage notes after origination, they dump them onto the US taxpayer via illegal-unconstitutional havens like Fannie/Freddie/HUD, and for last 15 yrs the FED has bought every MBS in the country, which frees up the Banks capital to do it again and make the real money on churning the points and feesplus will next 30 yrs have higher inflation than last 30 yrs?

An investor friendly agent can do all sorts of helpful things, like setting you up with a search for properties or connecting you with folks who have recently done deals like the ones you want to do. 6) Consider analyzing a deal or two in your local market, just for practice, with a free use of our Rental Property Calculator (or other calculators).