Howdy Irina,I would personally be cautious linking my primary residence to an investment AND participating in (what I assume would be your first) syndication deal.

This month we're going to have a panel of house hackers discussing all the ins and outs of turning your home from a liability into an asset! 

Can anyone recommend an insurer that is a bit more reasonable?

This is likely to be an area I would like to stay in long term and build a portfolio.I did the @Dave Meyer live pro workshop to find a market and have the following insight.

I am looking to start Real Estate(primarily focused on House Hacking and SFH if it goes well) as an engineer after graduating.

This certainly is an active community.  

We've been honing in on a pretty good development/investment formula that is working for us where we buy an existing single or multi-family house that can be improved or easily split into smaller units, and then we also add small new construction units to the property (townhomes or duplexes or cottages) and, generally, we rent them all out (though we have sold a couple of single family rehabs and we may sell the units in our next big project...

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.• And I buy them in an “as is” condition.

You will not find a lender who will go below $75,000 on an individual asset if your property appraises for anything less than let’s say 96,000, you’re going to have to utilize what is called a blanket loan.