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@Tiffany Maloch  I live in CA although I invest in VT, where I grew up and still have family. 

Just points out how ludicrous it is when people with no experience, knowledge and capital believe that by watching upteen hours of puff videos or paying $20k - $50k for telephone access to a failed salesman reading from a script will enable them to uncover properties selling for a fraction of their value and obviously overlooked by the real estate professionals and full time investors active every day.   

Say you got a neighborhood in suburban Georgia with a certain type of industry in the area, well, okay, cool, but you're gonna have a 24-year old recent Berkley graduate still living with their parents to manage the property!

In a perfect world, I'd live in the smaller unit and rent out the larger one, or maybe even run an Airbnb if the property makes senseI’m looking for a mix of cash flow and stability/appreciation.

Whether you’re using Mojo, REIsimpli, or a phone and spreadsheet, it all comes down to talking to motivated sellers every day and building a follow-up pipeline.If you’re doing it full time:Your daily non-negotiables are:2–3 hours of lead gen (calls/texts)1 hour of follow-up30 minutes of pipeline review/CRM cleanupThat’s how deals get done.

“Live” in your rental unit.  

But here’s the part people forget:House hacks aren’t judged on cash flow — they’re judged on how cheap they make your life while you live there.If you live in one unit, the other tenant is basically paying the majority of your housing cost, and that’s the real win.

Live in one unit rent out the other is a great idea, its not a strategy. 

Could you get a HELOC while you still live there for $200k?