@Valerie Lane, welcome to the BP community, wishing you the best of luck in your investing future!

I think the area has such growth and so much need for housing that this will be a good investment.Best wishes, Real Estate Agent in Texas (lic# 761505)

I wish it wasn't.What's probably going to happen now is that you'll carry around this experience and the grudge it engenders for the rest of your life, and after you buy a house, the next time a politician stands up and starts talking about tenant rights and rent control and rent moratoriums, you'll nod along, and bad things will happen to landlords, and we'll all scream bloody murder here and in other forums on how unfair, unfair, unfair it is that people hate landlords so much.How much we contributed as a group to bringing the public outrage on ourselves through unethical, grasping business practices like this, well, that won't be as enthusiastically discussed.

Wishing you all the best. 

What do you wish you had thought about or what would you do different? 

and then do your room-sharing house-hack thang.Ultimately it comes down to your needs, wishes, risk preferences, and capacity to wait. 

@Andy Roman, welcome to the BP community, wishing you the best of luck in your investing future!

@Anastasios Sakellariou, welcome to the BP community, wishing you the best of luck in your investing future!

I wish I knew then what I know now...we bought our first home in the Lexington Hills subdivision in Dec, 2011: 3 bd, 2.5 bth, 1836 sq ft, 3 car garage, yada, yada.  

@Zion Ama Dio, wishing you the best of luck