Purpose-Built for House Hacking

[Jerad Graham]

If someone developed a new property specifically for someone to buy who would be house hacking, what are some of the main things you would want to see in the property? Duplex, Triplex, Quadplex? Room counts? Amenities? Obviously it's market-dependent, but I'm curious about this community's wishlist.

[Masyn Grant Barney]

We have a builder here in Utah that is building single family homes with fully separated basement ADUs. They come with fantastic insulation between the floors, extra parking on the side with a separate entrance, their own laundry, and plenty of bedrooms up & down. My favorite has 5 bedrooms up and 2-3 down. So the basement ADU brings in plenty of revenue to make the upstairs owners mortgage liability equal to that of a small townhome.

I think this will become much more common in areas where people are being priced out of the market. Lenders can use legal ADUs to help qualify for the mortgage, so people that didn't even want to house hack before, may be in the market to do so simply to afford the type of house they want.