The responses are a fun read! Great topic @Brandon Turner.
In my case, I was about a year into dating my now husband, when I decided I wanted to buy a place of my own. I looked at a single family home, a loft, and eventually shifted gears to multi family homes. I ended buying a five unit building and my now husband along with pretty much everyone else thought I was completely insane! In fact, he wanted nothing to do with it. The property needed some updating. I had no experience but decided I could figure it out. I hired an old neighbor to help with the rehab on the first unit that took about a month, as it was just the two of us working. I installed laminate flooring, tiled, ripped out carpet, painted while still having my full-time job. The now husband was very impressed and offered to help with the next rehab. And so it began. Over the next couple years, we rehabbed all units in that building. It was probably some of the toughest times for our relationship, as we had to learn how to to work together, make decisions, finish what we started and not kill each other. We are up to three properties like that. Now that he understands the benefits and how it all works, he is a lot more excited about it. I never told him he had to be involved. I was hoping he would develop interest by listening to me talk about it and watching me in action. And I am very thankful he did!
