House hacking, made simple

Buy a home that pays you back.

A hackable home has separate rentable spaces — an ADU, a lockoff suite, a walkout level. You live in one part, rent the rest, and let your tenants cover most (or all) of your mortgage.

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Now featuring: 3979 Ponderosa Lane, Evergreen, CO — a 3,214 sq ft mountain home with a legal ADU + multiple lockoffs — price improved to $679,000 with a seller-paid 3-2-1 buydown. Run the numbers →

The problem

Housing is the biggest bill of your life. It doesn't have to be.

Most buyers stretch to afford a home that produces nothing. A hackable home flips the equation: the right floor plan turns unused square footage into monthly income — without buying a duplex or becoming a full-time landlord.

🏠 Lockoff Suites

Sections of a home — a walkout basement, a wing with its own entrance, a rec room with a wet bar — that can be separated ("locked off") and rented while you live in the rest.

🔑 Legal ADUs

Accessory dwelling units with their own kitchen, bath, and entrance. A permitted ADU is the gold standard: a true second residence on a single-family property.

📉 A Smaller (or $0) Payment

Rent from an ADU and one or two lockoff suites can offset most of a mortgage. In the right property, owners live for free — or close to it.

Featured hackable home

3979 Ponderosa Lane — Evergreen, Colorado

Price Improved · 3-2-1 Buydown · Legal ADU

$679,000 · 4 bed · 5 bath · 3,214 sq ft · 0.61 acres

A light-filled mountain home in Hiwan Hills with a private, permitted ADU — full kitchen, bath, and its own deck entrance — plus a rec room with wet bar and a flexible layout that supports several additional lockoff configurations.

Live in the main home. Rent the ADU and a lockoff suite. With the motivated seller’s price improvement and seller-paid 3-2-1 buydown, your estimated first-year housing cost could drop below $0 in one of Colorado's most desirable foothills towns.

See the Full Breakdown

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3Rentable zones (ADU + 2 lockoffs)
$1,850+Typical 1BR rent in 80439
$4,633Annual property tax
6Exterior parking spaces
1973Year built
$211Price per sq ft

The process

Three steps to hacking your housing payment

1

Find a hackable layout

We identify homes with the bones for it: separate entrances, walkout levels, existing ADUs, plumbing in the right places, and zoning that allows rentals.

2

Run the real numbers

Purchase price, financing, market rents, taxes, insurance — we model your true monthly cost before you make an offer, not after.

3

Live in part, rent the rest

Move into the space that fits your life, lease out the others, and put the difference toward equity, savings, or your next property.

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