Figuring out whether to go for out-of-state Section 8 or Houston house hacking depends on what you're comfortable with.

I see a lot of houses for sale and I am wondering is it a good market?

How do I figure that out?

More concerning to me was that his sales pitch highlighted several 'risks' that his structure was designed to avoid that were not real risks in my situation. 1.

New to the BP community and looking forward to learning from you all.Honestly this is a really simple calculation, the main reason to buy a primary residence is to shelter yourself from increasing rents, the breakeven timeline can vary greatly on that I’d play around with a calculator like this (https://www.calculator.net/rent-vs-buy-calculator.html) figure out how long you your break even is, how long you think you will be in area & make a decision based on that.

You could probably figure out a lot of those things on your own.

Then you just have to figure out what the 1st parcel less the 2nd parcel leaves behind.

Since we don't want to put too much trust into those figures, we have our broker, who's been a great asset in our business, provide a quote during the due diligence phase.

Sale price-175,000Rehab-20,000ARV-250,000Thanks

Purchase price: $310,000 Sale price: $528,000 SFR purchase converted to Novation Agreement.