“By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, and each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact,” Wang wrote.Meta faces stiff competition from other companies that are considered leaders in the field, including OpenAI and Google.

I would start by analyzing existing deals that are on the market. with a house hack, your goal is to reduce your overall housing expense and cash flow upon leaving. 

Once you factor in the rental income, both of my recent house-hack clients ended up paying less than market rentto live in an asset they own, not someone else’s.This strategy is powerful because:You drastically reduce your living expensesYou build equity from day oneYou gain hands-on landlord experienceYou’re using long-term, low-cost financing you can’t get on investment propertiesYou create a path to repeat the strategy every 12 months if you wantAnd no — your market doesn’t have to be a “top investing market” for this to work.

From there, you can adjust the ownership percentages—reducing yours and increasing hers—to allocate rental losses in a way that aligns with your overall tax strategy and maximizes the potential benefits.

Is there a way to reduce that huge capital gain hit?

Repairs are inevitable, but getting ahead of them greatly reduces that.

Second, understand that cost segregation is not “free money”—it is simply a method of accelerating depreciation, which reduces your basis over time.

Most lenders are going to want to have interior photos or they will significantly reduce the LTV requirements of the loan.

This could reduce your equity needs.

To intentionally reduce the leverage more than required is a foreign concept to me.Best wishesI think the real problem here is a complete misunderstanding of what REI really is.