what is house hacking?

House hacking is a real estate strategy where you use a home — whether it’s a rental or your own property — to reduce your living costs, generate income, and build equity through smart occupancy management.

You can house hack by:

• Renting a home or apartment and renting out the extra rooms

• Managing a co-living setup through rental arbitrage

• Living in your own property while renting out unused rooms or units or using them for commercial purposes such as curated live-in co-working spaces, podcast studio among others.

The goal is the same:
Turn where you live (or manage) into an income-producing asset, with or without owning real estate.

This modern approach lets you build real estate equity using:

• creative strategy

• room-by-room rentals

• co-living systems

• smart pricing and occupancy

Not just mortgages or traditional property ownership.