My wife and I own and manage all of our real estate investments which currently consist of 11 Single Family Homes. One of which serves as our primary residence. I am fully employed in the tech space with a six figure income. My wife runs the day to day of our investments and I handle the bills and paperwork. We have two children, one 14 and one 7 months. Big gap I know, but he is quite the blessing.
Our strategy is rent by the room.
For the next 3 months to 15 months, we are not actively investing unless a deal just happens to fall into our lap.
We have 10 loans. One DSCR, One VA, and Eight Conventional loans. One house we own without a loan. It was purchased off market as a cash only deal.
We cash flow 15k a month after all expenses and have 100k in cash. We have approximately 1m in equity across all properties.
We are taking the time off because we just closed on our new primary residence and converted our old primary to an investment property. We agreed to wait till after Christmas before starting back up investing as that would give us time to put the house together and have a celebration and have a good Thanksgiving and Christmas with family and friends.
We believe that we are at a point in our investing where it is becoming too much work for us to handle and we need to update our day to day (Hire & Train Staff), transition to something else (Apartments with a Management Company) or a Combination.
If you are still investing in real estate and have overcome these hurdles, are you happy with your decision? If you could do it over again, would you change anything? If you were in our shoes, what would you do?
Thanks for your input and we wish you all the best of deals and success in your real estate investing journey.
