Can You Really Live For Free With House Hacking?

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[00:00] If you want to house hack a property and you're expecting free right now, the the hard truth, the reality of the market is that I think you're expecting a little bit too much. You know, if you want to live free with one property to house hack, like you have to sacrifice so much, live in such

[00:17] a small unit, you have to basically live inside one room and have seven roommates. And I'm not even kidding. I've run the numbers on that. If you want uh a normal house hack with a multif family, you need like probably three or four duplexes before you can basically have zero living expenses,

[00:35] zero rent. Um, of course, if you get a quadriplex or a larger unit, then that that um may may be two deals, maybe three. If you wanted to do a a normal room hack, you know, you're looking at two or three of those deals before you can live completely rentree. And so it's just not unfortunately in Tampa, it's

[00:53] just not it's just not realistic to expect um to expect to live, you know, even pay just like $500 a month. You're probably going to be paying more than that. A lot of people right now are targeting between $1,000 a month out of pocket and $1,800. And and I know that sounds like a lot, but if your rent is

[01:11] already 1,600 and you're trying to shoot for 1,500, not only are you saving $100, but you own the property, like it's still a win. It may not be a unicorn deal that you hear somebody else on Bigger Pockets getting, but it's it's an amazing deal.