I grew up and have been around Dallas for 63 years and have a couple friends that moved to Houston and they own their own companies. 

I was looking in areas where property was reasonably affordable in southern Maine but then I had a thought.I am a recent college grad and I know the neighborhoods of my college town about as well as the town I grew up in.

The project came with a mountain of reno knowledge to add to my handyman knowledge, and grew a love of GC'ing projects (and a lot of heartache and screaming, but that's for another episode).After running the numbers, I realized it was better to move into the completed cottage (950 sq ft) and rent my previous primary residence (1300 sq ft) as a month-to-month furnished rental.

I started a real estate investment group that consist of five of my friends I grew up with.

I grew up in small one stop light town and my market still feels "big" to me.

Brandon and I grew up together and now we share an office, we were both PUMPED when we saw this.

The author is from Africa, so has grew up in a culture with a different view of death and has seen a lot of the third world in Africa in his travels, and has seen a lot more disease than the normal US person.

I grew up in an SEC football town and toyed with the idea of doing an STR there before, but it ultimately made more sense to go with a true, mature, vacation rental market.

Account Closed I started by house hacking my first condo in Naperville and grew from there!

Yes, HELOC would be periodically refinanced as equity in my house grew.