Sounds beautiful.

Given your background I expect you to be pretty disciplined in that task. 

My wife and I own a beautiful historic home in a small, charming town in Northern Virginia.

I specialize in building and flipping properties, focusing on transforming houses into beautiful, functional spaces that create value for buyers and investors alike.With several years of experience in real estate, I’ve developed a strong foundation in market analysis, design, and project management.

A proper vetting process - background, employment, credit, and reference checks - will weed out 99% of problem tenants. 

Thank you @Dave Foster I look forward to my new venture and investing in real estate hoping to achieve financial freedom and enjoy my life with my kids and my beautiful wife that has a terrible debilitating autoimmune disease.

Some options I'm running in the background of my brain while still learning the basics would be, in no particular order.A- HELOC.B- Sell my current house and either rent short term to get some momentum or use part of my equity to put down on a new home and the rest into a rental. 

You want not only qualified tenants (credit score, income, background checks, etc.) but quality tenants.

That's the beautiful part, working with just 20-odd clients can be a shocking $ volume.

Do a search for Background Checks on the Passive Pockets site.