All Forum Posts by: Ruben Castillo

Looking to purchase a multifamily home or SHM to househack.

Hello @Paige Hamilton, @Robert Ellis

Its been 8 months while househacking and everything has been going fine. The tenant i found was a fellow Honda associate. I put a listing on our private Honda Marketplace (community of over 9,000 people) and had many candidates (Engineers mostly). What was good about this is that i know rent will be paid each week and they are business professionals that are responsible and wont get into any illegal activities. 

I did also buy a duplex in westerville, OH near Otterbein University. I'm currently renting one side and renovating the other side. I found this area to be great because of the University and great Elementary schools. We put the renovated side up for rent and had many good applicants. 

I will definitely be on the lookout for more duplex in Westerville, OH and SFH in Dublin to purchase. I find that i'm getting good at renovating and managing tenants. Definitely, house hacking was a good way to get started in long term real estate investing.

@Harman N.

I used Trulia to look for my duplex. What my personal experience is there's quite a few duplex all around Powell, Westerville, and Dublin but getting down to downtown Columbus you find more triplex and fourplex.

Hello, my wife and I (No kids) are planning to do some house hacking on our single family home in Columbus Ohio. We have a home with 3Bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms(we only occupy one bedroom). We've been researching on how to get into real estate investing and think that this a great way to save capital for future investments and get experience as a landlord.

What I wanted to do is get some insight to anyone in BP that is currently doing this around my area or in general. Also, somethings to keep in mind while house hacking?

Thanks for the Info.