Real estate investing has been a passion of mine for time with my mother also having invested early on where I likely have gotten the love and desire to follow similar foot steps.I have taken last 6 months to educate myself and currently own a single family home as primary residence and would like to expand to multi family properties (2-4 units) for additional stream of income, not to mention potential tax benefits for long-term investing.Based on current living situation, I have a fair amount of equity established in my primary residency along with having enough cash to either pay off house completely or use towards investing in a multi family property.Given that I'm the sole source of income for our household with my wife being the home maker for our two kids under 2, trying to weigh out risks with getting started now or perhaps waiting. 

The hospital is going to ask for it over and over again during medical checkups.

It has provided no estimate of when distributions will be resumed.Nonetheless, it continues its barrage of self-promotion and continues to project large profits on current offerings.The proof is in the pudding.

That said, realistically, I don't think you can go below the 6% - 6.5% range.One question I would ask is if that 3% can be better spent somewhere else to de-risk your deal.

We have been working in the affordable housing space for some time, and this allowed us to partner with the local community and provide a housing solution they need as their city continues to expand with new jobs they are successfully bringing to town.

If you choose to go with this strategy you could complete your exchange and immediately do a cash out refi.

It's an asset that will continue to grow as more and more people and institutions begin to adopt it as a safer hedge against inflation than precious metals. 

You can do a lot of damage in Ohio for under $300k.

I’m torn between going the wholesaling route or sticking with long-term rentals. 

You're going to have to go learn about that yourself.The faster you get rid of this bozo the better off the whole system will be.