Most people won't want to house hack forever, but if the numbers make sense, you can move out, lease your unit and hold onto the property with great financing in place, or sell if the market makes sense and roll the proceeds into another property(ies).While I never house hacked myself, if I I knew what I know now back in my early 20s, I would have done this straight out of college in lieu of renting for the first 5 years and would be a lot wealthier as a result...Good luck with whichever strategy you choose!

This allowed us to begin to build equity while also saving money.I thought about buying a SFR and saving the cashflow but with getting married later in the year I couldn't live with my parents forever.  

@Wayne Brooks @Joe Gore   IN California the trustor has the right to bring the note current 5 days before the sale that law has been on the books for ever...

It feels like it takes forever but hindsight it seems like it all just flew by!!

Other than it taking forever to close, is there any good reason to not buy a short sale?

Alright...so between work and this project I haven't posted anything on BP in forever..so lets recap... what has happened over the last 5 month...Since my last update we removed the subfloor in the kitchen.

I'm a buy-and-hold-forever kind of person.

I've heard many complaints from investors saying it takes forever to get permits with the city.

The west coast has been hot for a while now, and it's can't last forever.

After 3 weeks of waiting I finally have my appraisal in hand. I just talked to the lender I started the process with, and they said it's going to take another 30 days to close the refinance. That seems stupidly long. ...