However, as a recent transplant to Hawaii I'm noticing rats all over the property.

Depending on your market, you can definitely cash flow, live rent free and successfully rehab it as well, as long as you make your purchase correctly.

This is where the BRRRR strategy will come to play in helping us refi and yet again work on a different deal while still living with my grandmother.We currently live rent free!

People need a place to live.  Renting

I mean I could essentially live rent free but I wouldn't want to jeopardize being able to claim this as income property and use it as collateral for my next deal.3.

., fellow Houstonian (transplant) here.

The last room is the one that I live in, and I now live rent free and pay my mortgage/utilities with my tenant's rent money!

Your CA transplant job market and net migration is high and will continue to be so. 5.

A fairly recent transplant form the Midland/Odessa area of West Texas and now that I'm fully settled here hoping to start getting into Real Estate investment as a landlord using a Buy and Hold strategy.Been following the Dave Ramsey strategy for getting out of debt and should be debt free except our house by this spring and while I'm finishing that up looking to educate myself on this so I can make an intelligent start.

I'm one of those transplants from LA since 2013.