The House Hacking Strategy

How to Use Your Home to Achieve Financial Freedom

By: Craig Curelop

Narrated by: Clifford Ponder

Length: 10 hrs and 1 min

Publisher's Summary

House hacking 101: Don’t pay for your home, hack it and live for free!

Savvy investors have been using a little-known but clever strategy in real estate for decades, and now, you will learn exactly how to perfect this trade secret! When mastered, house hacking can save you thousands of dollars in monthly expenses, build tens of thousands of dollars in equity each year, and provide the financial means to retire early. In fact, the average house hacker can turn a single-family home or small multifamily property into a cash-flowing investment. You can collect rent that completely covers your living expenses, and then some!

In this audiobook, serial house hacker Craig Curelop lays out the in-depth details so you can make your first (or next) house hack a huge success.

You will learn:

• What house hacking is, and why it’s one of the best methods for building wealth
• The different types of house-hacking strategies you can use - no one size fits all here!
• The incredible connection between house hacking, wealth building, and early retirement
• How to get started house hacking - even with low income or low savings
• Strategies to house hack with a family, spouse, or independently
• How to find the ideal house-hack property - even in a competitive or expensive market
• Property management strategies to make ownership a breeze
• Stories from real estate investors all over the country on their house-hacking triumphs, mishaps, and their purpose behind financial independence

House hacking doesn’t have to be a mystery. Discover why so many successful investors support their investment careers with house hacking - and learn from a frugality expert who has “hacked” his way toward financial freedom!

©2019 Craig Curelop (P)2019 BiggerPockets Publishing

unrealistic and repetitive

Worst of all the BP books produced. ALL relevant of the information is just repeated from other BP RE books anything else is common sense. All real life examples are completely unrealistic compared to the average person. "this is so and so, a fresh 23 year old college grad making 70k a year, can only afford 3.5% down" give me a break. is this HGTV???

lacking humanity

This book has good tips. You can find most of them online or on the BP podcast. What bothers me is how myopic the author sounds. A lot of his priorities seem to be imprinted in this book. He goes as far as to suggest to the reader not to listen to the news because it is a waste of time and that time can be spent making more money. Author sounds young and naive with self serving, borderline sociopathic, tendencies.

Pleasantly Surprised!

This is a great book. I read a review before buying that said it contained a lot of obvious information. I've been investing for four years and the book told me plenty I didn't know and gave me some great ideas. I'm also getting the hard copy so I have a reference to go back to.

Great read for beginners in househacking - Jaydin

This was a great book for me, because I'm new to Realestate investing, and I want to know as much as possible when it comes to realestate

Great Information....but

I wish the Chapters were labeled correctly and I wish they had titles. Overall great listen but hard to reference back to information.

Informative

Love all the case studies. Each step is clearly laid out in a repeatable manner

Great book. Great strategy.

Easy read with great strategies on how to invest. This is especially great for people who are new to investing, those who have a full time job but want to invest, or those who don't have a lot of money to invest.

Too long hype over an old concept

This might seem as a new concept to the author - but in reality this is likely the oldest and most common concept of renting - shared living (or as they call it house hacking).

All over the world people rented rooms since the first structures were built. And today almost "every third" house/apartment, in any country of the world, rents out extra space (room, basement, mother in law apartment, accessory dwelling unit, remodeled garage, etc.).

Read classic "The Richest Man in Babylon" and you will find references to rooms for rent thousands of years ago.

This hype over re-inventing a wheel should not be longer than 1 hour. The remaining 9 hours is an eloquent empty talk.

HouseHacking Guide

this was a great book on how to housr hack. i learned so much great information.

So helpful!

Such a good breakdown of all of the things you need to do to house hack!