House Hacking Strategy with Craig Curelop | EP79 Working Capital The Real Estate Podcast

Craig Curelop is a Real Estate Agent and Investor. He is an Author of The House Hacking Strategy: How to Use Your Home to Achieve Financial Independence and Co-host of FI Team podcast.
In this episode we talked about:
- Craig’s Bio & Background
- House Hacking Strategy
- Expansion of Craig’s Real Estate Portfolio since 2017
- Working at BiggerPockets 
- Real Estate Investing Strategies 
- Writing a Real estate Book
- Sourcing Deals
- View On Current Market Environment
- Short Term Rental Market Outlook
- Financing Deals
- The Advice to People who Consider Making a Career in Real Estate
- Building a Team 
- Mentorship, Resources and Lessons learned
Useful links:
https://thefiteam.podbean.com
https://www.instagram.com/thefiguy/?hl=en
Transcriptions: 
Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name is Jesper galley. And on this show, we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Jesper galley and you're listening to working capital the real estate podcast. Our special guest today is Craig . Craig is a real estate agent and investor. He is author of the host hacking strategy and co-host of FII team podcast, Craig, how's it going,
 
Craig (37s): Jesse? So good to be here today. I'm doing great. How
 
Jesse (40s): Are you? I'm doing awesome, man. I can't complain we're on the tail tail end or just, just pass Halloween. So I, for those that can't see us right now, we've got a couple of mustache here, but I feel like yours is for a Movember
 
Craig (53s): Mine's is just for life and his life. The lady, the lady loves the mustache, so we
 
Jesse (58s): Keep it. That's amazing. So it's just a lifestyle choice.
 
Craig (1m 1s): It's a lifestyle choice. Yeah, man. It's been like a year. I think it's, I'm almost, I'm approaching my one year mustache anniversary, so I love it. There should be a, there should be a celebration for that.
 
Jesse (1m 10s): Oh, I said we were just chatting. I have mine on, I meant to shave it off. I was afraid of mercury for Halloween and now I, and now we're in November, so I don't know what to do, dude. You
 
Craig (1m 18s): Look good. You should keep it.
 
Jesse (1m 21s): I appreciate it, man. Are you joining us today from, from Denver?
 
Craig (1m 25s): Yeah, I am here in Denver. Yeah. Been here four and a half years.
 
Jesse (1m 30s): Sweet. Well, thanks. Thanks so much for coming on the show. Really appreciate it. I think we'll have a great episode here. Talk a little bit about your background in real estate and love to get into house hacking and the book. But before we do, maybe what we could do is talk a little bit about how you got into real estate and bring us up to speed of what you're doing these days.