I’m a 41-year-old father of six who loves the Lord and is driven by a desire to build a better future for my family through real estate.I own a small tile installation business, am a certified insurance agent, and am currently in the process of obtaining my real estate license.

I work for a building materials company now and took their online game from Zero to very engaged in the past few years and it's been really fun.

I plan on starting out next year with a small plug and play solution to have minimum risk.

We both are in W2 and want to take this RE journey one step at a time, baby steps(scale the next 5 years and further).

Fund and Grow appears to offer nothing more than one of those credit card stacking schemes that were popular here years ago.

They also both have declining population over the past 10 years.

I haven't read up on house hacking yet, but I don't believe that living in the property for a year before renting it out will be an option for me.   

Use it to gain some experience as a landlord and in two years leverage the equity to purchase a duplex.

I buy and hold.After all the gut rehabs and new builds we did in the last 5 years, I felt the same way.

We were running out of money to continue carrying the property, so we took it.We refinanced all our existing debt into a new 30 yr loan for $2M, which was 10 years IO at 8.375% before going principal + interest in years 11-30.