Do have an idea of your preferred acquisition price and how much rehab might be required? 

Make sure you know the value the ADU will add to the property before building the ADU. 2) the financing on an ADU is typically far worse than for initial investment property acquisition or is often not leveraged by the ADU (HELOC, cash out refi, etc).

I have been an avid listener of Bigger Pockets podcast since 2020 and am very hopeful I can finally begin my real estate journey sometime this year either in state or out of state (or Both!)

Inflation has finally caught up to us all.  

The time back will free up more time to increase your active income, or acquisition of more rentals to get you more cashflow (passively or actively).

$10K seems like a nice, round number...Finally, if you have $250K in cash, I would not put it all into a single property / single dealHope this helps... happy to help further

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It takes walking new investors through the process from real life lead generation to acquisition, renovation and disposition. 

A couple months later finally starting to feel better.That's when I called in a professional mold remediator.

For me, over 90% work in tech and have $150-500k for an acquisition and...99% of the leads are buyers.