Austin’s housing market has seen a nearly 23% decline since May 2022, according to Redfin.

Do you own your own house? 

@Heather Bailey When house hacking with a separate rental unit, ensure proper insurance by obtaining landlord or short-term rental coverage tailored for Airbnb activities, in addition to your primary residence policy.

Do you plan on renting out your current house or house hacking it? 

Post the listing, Any local investor would be  able to tell you if you were fleeced in the acquisition, Birmingham is notorious for being different street to street. 500k houses one street over from 100k houses.

It's a very old house but newly renovated so there has been some maintenance issues because of the cold and poor insulation.

Hey Brandon,I had good success by getting equity lines on properties to access the cash to invest again. 20% is certainly not essential if you want to go lower there are many lending options for lower down payments, especially if you are willing to house hack!

I'm assuming the House is worth roughly $400k.Goals1.

You have to understand the market, neighborhoods, numbers, and realize the risks involved buying houses "sight-unseen".

This coming weekend we were thinking of come out and checking the neighborhoods of few zips where there were houses we liked on MLS.