In this episode of The Co-Living Show, Craig Curelop and Miller McSwain sit down with twins Hem and Harsh, the operators behind CH Room Rentals, to unpack how they scaled from their first house hack to 7 co-living homes and 35 rooms in just a couple of years.

Hem and Harsh share their story of immigrating to the U.S. from India, working full-time through college, saving aggressively, and using house hacking as their entry point into real estate. What started as one 5-bedroom home in Charlotte quickly turned into a repeatable co-living model built around furnished rooms, strong tenant retention, self-management, and family partnership.

This conversation is especially valuable for newer co-living investors who are trying to figure out what the next few steps look like after buying their first property.

In this episode, we cover:

- How Hem and Harsh scaled to 7 homes and 35 rooms
- Why 5 bed / 3 bath homes are working in their market
- How they use house hacking to keep acquisition costs low
- The benefits and challenges of running a family-owned co-living business
- Why they chose to self-manage instead of using PadSplit
- How furnished rooms help them command higher rents and improve retention
- Their favorite platforms for finding tenants, including Facebook Marketplace and Furnished Finder
- How they keep vacancy low without overcomplicating operations
- What they learned from their first eviction
- Why local REI groups and co-living communities helped accelerate their growth
- Their next phase: new construction co-living homes

The episode also includes a community Q&A about rising utility costs and how co-living operators can respond when expenses increase faster than rents.

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