My plan is to give myself till April 1st to find a 2-4 unit to purchase with an FHA, study the local market and if I don't feel like a 2-4 unit is obtainable by then, then I want to use an FHA to buy a single family house which I'd live in for 1.5-3 years while looking for a duplex/triplex/fourplex (I'd rent the single family house after moving out). 

I have a feeling that my home address and phone number are public somewhere. 

., influencers and gurus) without actually obtaining success so it leads to a lot of confusion, misinformation, and just muddles the water on what is realistic and what isn't.  

I also just started on obtaining my real estate license as well.

Otherwise, you might decide to take the hit and refinance anyway; we can deduct the prepayment penalty as interest, according to IRS Publication 535. 

It costs money and I can get public records for free that I deem more reliable than the credit bureaus. 

He found the deal thru an agent but was struggling to obtain a loan so he offered 50/50 partnership to help with the financing.

I am truly humbled by the knowledge that we have obtained over the last year living in our first house hack.

I recently finished Brandon Turner's book Rental Property Investing and I am eager to get started on building my real estate portfolio.I have set a goal of obtaining a multifamily property to house hack in Queens/Brooklyn by July of 2022.

So, in many cases you are bidding blind or in part blind if you can obtain access or some information.