Is this a smart plan to buy a house?

In the future I want to buy my own house and I'm planning on renting it out so the renters technically pay my mortgage. I would live somewhere else that obviously didn't charge much and I would try to pay around 300$ or 400$ over the minimum each of each months mortgage out of my own pocket. Is this a smart idea or should I rethink it entirely?

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