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8 October 2023 | 11 replies
It does not take that much to be financially free (a few paid for properties), and if you're able to purchase a property every 2-3 years and continue living with roommates, you can completely change your life in a relatively short amount of time.
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26 January 2019 | 18 replies
You and your roommates will be paying down your own mortgage rather than someone else's.
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9 August 2017 | 6 replies
One option if you have more than one bedroom is to house hack the condo and rent the room to a roommate and free up some of your own cash while you continue to pay down the mortgage on your condo.
9 February 2017 | 18 replies
Having grown up in Bryan/College Station, and attended Texas A&M, I recall that my roommates and I wanted to move out of the dorm and into a house.
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3 July 2023 | 8 replies
You can advertise looking for roommates or rooms for rent on several websites including Facebook marketplace.
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2 October 2021 | 20 replies
This is a roommate/tenant situation.
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2 January 2018 | 7 replies
In your case depending on how big of a house you buy and many roommates you can handle you have the potential to live for free, minus utilities of course.
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18 December 2020 | 0 replies
Currently living on the main floor with two roommate renters and will be renting out the basement unit, which opens out to the backyard.
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16 December 2016 | 66 replies
Good luck :) If you want roommates to help pay the mortgage, you should buy something as close to the University as possible.
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14 January 2020 | 184 replies
That's why now I'm looking at only 1 property on a lot with at least 3 rooms so that we can indeed get a roommate situation (don't mind giving up some privacy now to get going in the long run).