My Goal: To purchase properties, SFD or Multi, to create $8,000 in passive income within the next five to six years to retire and enough the little time I would have left with my children before they leave my home. 

Note: An acceptable employment situation includes an individual who took several years off from employment to raise children, then returned to the workforce.

They will lie stupidly, like little backward frightened children.

My wife and four children relocated from Virginia Beach about three years ago. 

I am a Paramedic FF and my wife is a stay at home mom with our 4 children.

Been in Austin for 2 years after a 5 year expat adventure in Shanghai with our 2 children.  

Isn't it the duty of children to take care of their parents, not the state's (government) responsibility?

We're basically wanting to learn the ropes to serve ourselves when purchasing properties but would also like to be qualified enough to help friends out if they too are in need of purchasing property.Our big concern is that getting licensed will require my wife to have to work in an office setting for a certain period of time, which currently with the children is not an option.  

@Jim Pellerin both I’m tired of being in the rat race at this rate I’ll work till I’m dead and leave nothing for my children.

The elderly owner who lived there passed away and her children have just been paying property taxes on it.