From living in a hostel to owning his own house, Ken has been through quite the journey. Ken was a military veteran when the 2008 recession happened and started to realize the effects of it immediately. After living in a hostel and sleeping on the couch of a friend’s, he knew he never wanted to have the uncertainty of having his own place.

By around 2018, Ken used a VA loan to purchase a house in the Denver area. Being a three-bedroom house, he realized he would be able to cut down the mortgage by renting out two rooms. Through this room rental house hack, Ken was paying close to nothing to live in an area with high living costs.

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