Looking to start acquiring properties in Dallas

[Adam Ward]

Greetings, to premise, I actually started my interest in real estate investing in 2018 by house hacking and had been attending real estate groups and meetups in the hope of scaling soon after that. When the shutdowns and eviction moratoriums happened, I shied from real estate investing for the time being until some stability hit the market and after returning from a deployment recently I find myself back where I left off.

With a VA loan at my disposal and cash from savings and the downsizing of my vehicle in our WFH era, I'm hoping to owner occupy a small multifamily in the Dallas area, from there I'll stabilize that property and move onto the next investment as a pure investment.

Anyone else start off this way? I'm thinking of self managing for the time being and have actually enjoyed the aspects of being a landlord and the influence it gives you in providing affordable housing for those that might not otherwise have it.