Since I’m not in stocks & I don’t do buy & holds anymore I never build up cash like Buffett.

If you did this the 1031 would be appropriate, you get the lease you each want, and after a year or so they can exercise their option and buy it from you.Added bonus - If the rent to own is structured tight enough so that risk of loss passes to the now tenant at signing of the contract rather than the deed changing that is the same thing as you selling the property on the day you ink the rent to own so you could again 1031 that property if the financing issues could be worked out.

The area is starting to build up and there are quite a few properties that can be swept up in the area if you have the cash for renovation and the resilience to stick through the transition period.

They said they would sell to us at a discount as "gift" to help us build up our investment property portfolio.

I would like to build up and make a 2 story apartment or residential above commercial as the city allows.

Over the time even with zero cash flow, it's gonna build up something better than my 401k for retirement.

@Michael Garofalo Get the tenant in there and build-up some rent and deal with it later.

I want to start slow get my feet wet and build up from there once I do have confidence in what i am doing.

As you build up confidence in your rehab estimates and demonstrate a successful business with your portfolio, the bank will eventually give you 1. lower interest rates, 2. higher rehab budgets, and 3. more opportunity to take on additional risk as they trust your knowledge on making sound decisions.2.

I am trying to build up my team to start buying investment properties, both house flipping and to build a portfolio.