House Hacking: How to Live for Free | Ian Broadie

In this episode of insideABODE, host Dave Jones revisits a conversation from the archive.

🔁 A Throwback Thursday re-release. Originally recorded May 2019.

Ian Broadie breaks down the mindset behind "living for free" — buying a multi-family property, living in one unit, and letting the other tenants carry the mortgage.

Dave and Ian get into how the math actually works, what you're signing up for as a live-in landlord, and why this is one of the few genuine on-ramps to real estate investing that doesn't require money you don't have. It's not passive and it isn't glamorous. But for the right person at the right stage, it changes the whole financial picture.

There's also a Husky-or-Cougar question in here that Ian refuses to answer until the very end. We left it in.

For anyone eyeing a duplex or triplex, early-career buyers doing the rent-versus-own math, and agents who want a sharper answer when a client asks about house hacking.

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