If I purchase the investment property in my retirement account, I can't do the work myself - I have to hire out and pay contractors through the retirement vehicle.

There are however different vehicles and scenarios that may help achieve your goalsHope this helps!

The basics can be summed up as follows: borrow max available secured by the acquisitions fixed assets; sell the acquisitions receivables to a factor; mortgage any real property the acquisition owns; sell preferred stock and bonds in the acquisition vehicle to family, friends and associates; and obtain seller financing for the balance plus working capital from the seller.  

Multiple, billion dollar companies are investing heavy in our area, such as Intel, Google, and Amazon.

Multiple, billion dollar companies are investing heavy in our area, such as Intel, Google, and Amazon.

Multiple, billion dollar companies are investing heavy in our area, such as Intel, Google, and Amazon.

As long as appreciation and pricing pushes investors out of Boston to other tenant heavy areas that have job growth or easy access to highways/transport it will likely continue to improve.Very similar to the growth/improvement of Worcester from what Worcester looked like ~10+ years ago.

The only debt I have is what I owe on my current vehicle.

If you lose your home, apartment and or vehicle move in with your parents no matter how old you are or how old they are.

2 bed/1 bath 1120 sqft: heavy rehab1 bed/1 bath 636 sqft: heavy rehab