With all the work and oil out here they are building like crazy.

Hey @Brad Tom, no I'm not buying rental oil rigs.

It's an oil/gas/agri town about 2 hours from a major center.

There was so much water that it seeped all the way over to our side of the basement (it only houses our oil tank and furnace and is accessed through the outside so we don't go down there much in the summer and didn't know it was wet). 

I have a client that is interested in purchasing a large estate to use as an assisted living facility, but they aren't currently able to swing the down payment.

We have slowly acquired a small self storage facility, an 8 unit apartment, completed a large rehab project, and turned our previous personal house into a rental after moving into the rehab project. 

School, sports, clubs, college, and internships filled your calendar and you began to operate efficiently as a well oiled machine, if you were a car you might be a Toyota or a Honda, smoothly operating with reliability day in and day out. 

@Michael Palma  Mobile home parks are second ONLY to storage facilities with ease of financing.   

The goals that I hope to achieve through real estate investing are: 1) to provide a cash flow stream for my mother as she gets older and requires assisted living or nursing home facilities, 2) provide a cash flow stream for my younger brother (who has Down's Syndrome) as he gets older and requires assisted living facilities and increased medical attention, and 3) provide a means of early retirement for me and my older brother.While listening to BP podcast #276 (my favorite) the other morning, I had that lightbulb moment of how to get started in real estate investing. 

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