There is really no street parking at it so the only real impact is hearing the bells chime every hour and half hour.

That is probably the easiest way to start if you do not 30-40% cash to put down to make the deals work as an investment from the start. 

Long term rental is the easiest investment strategy and just start there.

To me the biggest, easiest, and most accessible opportunity is with real estate.

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Hi Shane, I want to tell you something from my research because it seems that we've been doing the same thing when it comes to educating ourselves on RE.Given that you already have 20k, which is around half of the down payment, try to leverage family and friends as private money lender in order to complete the down payment.Second, depending on how long you had your primary, assuming that you did not cash out anything from the equity, you can try out this option ( no need to cash out all, just cash out the amount that you need to make this deal happen).just my humble opinion based on what I have learned!

It's not super easy to expand out to other PMLs beyond your friends and family but I think the easiest way is through them.

Coming up with half the cost or maybe if you have two partners 1/3 of the cost is a lot easier than all of it.This all sounds great, right?

Then decide if its for you , I teach folks how open ALFs for free friends of my wife nurse and others 80% run away when they hear what it takes 10% said they'll think about it and 5% do it then out of the 5% half close them or sell them in first year.

Then half of those don't probably don't make sense ROI wise for most people, and maybe 1/2 of what's left you can rule out due to location or some other factor.#4 While I am sure there are plenty of people that do it, the worst situations I see are investing with friends.