Becoming familiar with how treasuries work also gives a lot of insight into how mortgage financing works because mortgage rates move with the 10-year treasury most of the time - so following the 10-year will give you insight into the real estate cycle as a side benefit. 

I'm going to give a verbal warning followed up with a text message describing what was talked about so we have records if something bad happens. 

There are many local real estate investors that you could contact in Omaha that he could follow around and absorb the process.

Keep in mind the following: 1) If you don't have enough cash for the entire purchase in the TSP rollover to IRA, your financing options would be limited to a non-recourse loan.

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Read "Long-Distance Real Estate Investing" by David Greene and follow him on the David Greene podcast.

Quote from @Kar Sun: It appears the law requires you to allow them to attend, inspect together, and mutually agree to a list of damages: https://codes.findlaw.com/tn/title-66-property/tn-code-sect-...Print that off and follow it.Make it clear to her that she is not permitted to bring guests.

I will do some homework first, before ask follow up questions:)

Sorry for the following Contrarian advice, but you're not a 5 year old so:The only reason to buy a personal residence (Home) is because someone is forcing you to.Usually, this person is called your Spouse (which is Latin for someone who forces you to make horrible financial decisions then criticizes you for them endlessly:)perhaps DON'T buy a home, just rent something affordable and invest the 20% or in your case 50% into the stock market (sp500 16.1% yearly return last 15 years, 11% last 50 years, 10% last 125 years)remember, your RENT is your maximum monthly housing expense, but your Mortgage is your minimum or starting monthly housing cost, it always goes up from thereI've, owned 2 personal homes, 100% appreciation in 6years on #1 and in 7 years on #2, (I timed our market perfectly both times), with 20% down and very low mortgage rates, but after honestly calculating all expenses, only made about 5-6% a year "investment wise".

Everything else will follow, reverse engineer, and get started.