The house had termite damage all the way into some of the interior walls. And if you look at the

companion article, I have some pictures, what that looked like. It basically looked like Swiss cheese.

Some of these solid wood had turned into this little, this wood that had all these tunnels and holes in

it that you could just rip out with your hand in some cases.

Welcome to the real estate and financial independence podcast.

My name is Chad Carson.

You can call me coach.

And this is a show all about investing in real estate, achieving financial independence and doing more of what matters.

Thank you for being here to listen to another

episode, whether you're brand new to the show or whether you're a long time listener. I always

appreciate you being here. Today's episode is actually just going to be me. It's not an interview,

and I'm going to share a topic that I'm excited to share because it's very personal, and it's about

how I rented my house and then bought another.

So it's a case study of what I call a live in then rent strategy.

So I'm going to get into more detail.

I'm actually going to have a companion article as well because I have a lot of pictures

before and after and how as we remodeled this property and share some of the rental

numbers with you. So you might later on when you have a chance, click on that companion

article to kind of follow along there as well. But I just want to share this strategy because

I found it's one of the simplest and the easiest to apply strategies, but also one of the

most profitable. And it's one that many of you,

even if you just do this once or twice, you can build a good long-term rental property and turn

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