Hi Nick, good choice on wanting to use real estate investing as the vehicle to Financial Freedom.

This is my "treat yourself" upgrade and the safety of my family factored more into that decision than before.But my previous 2 vehicles (all I've owned since getting my DL) were only worth about 2-3k.

Either a land contract or a similar creative financing vehicle with your uncle where you come to an agreement that he lets you do the rehab with HML and when you refi it is when you pay him. 

It may look like an inexpensive vehicle to get into real estate investing but it generally is considered higher risk and therefore comes with higher rates/fees and down payment requirements.

It's even worse if you finally got a fleet of vehicles to work on when that letter comes. 

I a new investor the only real estate i own is my primary residence and i have a studio apartment that i made attached to the home and my parents live there which they are paying me rent to live there so i guess technically i am a landlord (lol) about 2 months ago me and my family have decided we are going to leave sunny south Florida and move to western Massachusetts to start our journey in investing on long term single/multifamily rentals primarily using the BRRRR method as our vehicle to reach our goal of financial freedom !! 

This used to be a miscellaneous expense deductible when itemizing your deductions rather than taking the standard deduction.Having said that, travel and vehicle expenses will most likely be deductible towards your real estate business and investments. 

I think if a tenant were to have multiple bags of groceries in their vehicle and need to take it up to the kitchen they probably wouldn't be taking off their shoes in between grabbing bags of groceries or just say they are in a hurry and forgot something inside need to run back inside, they won't be taking off their shoes. 

So, do you utilize traditional retirement vehicles, or are you planning on straight REI income in retirement?

We want to get to a point where we don't HAVE to work if we don't want to and we see real estate as a promising vehicle to that goal.