Another good choice is Matthews, 25 minutes southeast of Uptown, which has a walkable downtown area with a small selection of restaurants, bars, and coffee shops.Traffic is something to keep in mind, as Charlotte is growing fast.

If you keep growing, you can also keep more of your capital working by having access to funds that may or may not be liquid cash.

I remember even during Covid we sitting pretty collecting all of our Section 8 rent checks.....The County Wake housing authority blows the big one.

Just remember when it comes to Real Estate investing it takes time to grow your real estate portfolio depending on how much risk your are willing to take.

Looking forward to hearing about your journey and seeing your portfolio grow!

Just remember: most negative reviews are written by problematic tenants.

Remember that as a serviceman, you get excellent benefits from the VA loan that can be used to house hack and for investment properties as you can use your allotment on more than one property at a time.

Even though you're at 2.75%, it’s not doing much for you if you can't use the funds to grow.

Give the cost of money these days is around 7%, it would definitely be nice to have a paid off rental.7% cost of money sounds like a lot until you remember that it is actually the tenants that are paying it for you while your money is sitting in an index fund making 8%.

Great tools that get updated regularly.I am on the lending side of things and would be happy to hop on a call with you anytime to discuss financial strategies and help answer any questions you may have about nearly any loan product available to help you on your journey, even if they are not products my capital partners offer.We are all here to help you learn and grow.