By adopting the house-hacking method—living in one unit while renting out the others—we plan for the tenants to cover the mortgage and gain valuable property management experience.

I see posts on CA insurance that appear to be ignorant to both the past method used to set insurance prices as well as the approach the current commissioner is advocating.The current policy had insurers set rates based on past losses.  

I just keep hearing over and over again to just take action and course correct from there. 

Seeing a lot of borrowers have success across the country, especially with the BRRRR method and the AirbnBRRRR methods! 

You're 100% correct, as always.

@Alecia Loveless is correct--tenants need access 24/7 to their electric service panel, water and heat, assuming those are individual utilities for each unit. 

Real estate is not the stock market and it's called buy & hold and not buy & sell for a reason.I did sell a few properties about 10 years ago when I learned the hard way that going into cheaper neighborhoods was not the right strategy for me, so that was basically a strategy correction and it was necessary, but also costly both in terms of dollars and time.

Our exchange didn't work out and they returned the proceeds via wire as soon as our 180 days were up.I not sure I am doing this correctly.

Find Brandon's videos on YouTube for the "four square" method of analyzing homes and practice.

Once the above skills and tools are acquired, understanding the sequential process of the development along its timelines and costs needs to be correctly implemented.