I’m beginning my investment journey with a strategic focus on acquiring a primary residence that also generates income through house hacking—purchasing a multifamily or dual-use property to live in one unit and rent out the others.In addition to this primary investment, I am actively exploring low-risk, medium-return opportunities such as tax lien certificates, distressed properties, and other alternative real estate investments that offer long-term value and manageable risk.My goal is to build sustainable income, grow equity, and gain hands-on experience as I expand into a diversified real estate portfolio.

@Marcus Pender, Since you would be staying in that house for 2 years, you would qualify for the primary residence exclusion, which allows you to exclude up to $250,000 of capital gains on the sale of your primary residence if you’re single, or up to $500,000 if married filing jointly.

Hello! I purchased an investment property last year using a regular home mortgage loan and have been living in it and renting out rooms on airbnb for over a year now. I'm ready to move and turn it into a long term ren...

Quote from @Erwin McClain: I've been in my primary for over 15 years.

Second, I kind of agree with @Tom Gimer but you have some challenges if the home is not going to be your primary home, meaning, you are not going to move into it and make it your primary home.

Mitch Mcconell got caught with this one year, and sold his house to wife, so she could claim the homestead/primary residence in DC, and he could claim it in Kentucky. 

Helocs on primary homes with low LTV and good credit will be 7.5%-9.5%.

My understanding of human nature tells me that most of these schools are there primarily for the monetary profitability (which is not to say they can't be good schools, but I bet that's not the primary reason they exist).

There are two major tax-mitigating opportunities in the IRS code for real estate salesThe first tool is the primary residence exclusion (sec 121), which allows you to take the first $250k ($500k if married) of the gain tax-free when you sell your primary residence as long as you have lived in the property for two out of the previous five years you have owned it.

Sounds like a lot of work and contortions to buy a place with possible STR permit issues, all at a price that: "probably not interesting as a primary residence, or at least not anywhere near the asking price".....