By contrast, if that's only a small portion of your investment portfolio and you're looking to diversify, then it still makes all the sense in the world. 

So as a house hacker who is renting out portions of your primary residence to generate income that is used to offset the cost of your mortgage and other expenses associated with owning a home, this works.

So here we are 60 days ago OH there is a bad flu bug in China to shoot 2 mil are going to die in the US and the whole economy is on lock down at least a good portion of many industries..  

Good luck on the "R" portion that you mentioned.

Plan was to transfer the balance onto my HELOC (AMEX will charge a 3% transfer fee) that I just used a portion of to buy two rentals, then pay off completely after the intro period. 

I know that’s a bad rent ratio, but we would be interested in using a good portion of the equity for other investment opportunities. 

The interesting thing is that our Condo Docs. specify a breakdown of his portion being 47% and residents paying 53%.

I had this happen to me when I first graduated college, I couldn't substantiate my job offer until I filed my taxes the following year, so the bank just took into account my min. wage jobs from college and a portion of what my paystubs showed. 

The cashout portion to fund my house hack to generate cash flow that will offset the cashout loan with extra cash flow.

They also guarantee all or a portion of the rent.