To get into real estate investing in Cleveland Heights, study the market trends, grow your circle, begin with a bit, look at deals with care, use loan options, and keep learning.

One of you should be the owner, hold title to the property, the other can be a limited partner.

My father would be willing to help us out in basically any way that he could, in exchange for modest monthly payments going forward, and is content limiting his capital gains exposure with the owner financing. 

Coming out of the city council meeting I determined to sell everything within the city limits as soon as it was expedient to.

A recent study showed that 80 people are moving to this city every single week, which will continue to increase housing demand.

He's out of Rochester, has lower limits for DSCR but also has a ton of options for loan products.

But California also has pretty onerous land-use regulations that limit supply, and there’s been a lot less financial distress than people were expecting, with one of the lowest loan-to-value ratios on outstanding mortgages in the country.

If done the other way around, the terms of your preapproval will change.With residential financing, you cannot purchase directly into a LLC (unless you look at DSCR) but that still would limit you to the 5% down conventional.  

After he became completely paralyzed, I found myself wondering if we'd ever be able to use our own vacation home because it wasn't accessible for him and it made me realize just how limited and unwelcoming the world is for people with disabilities.

You may have a skill-set that could be helpful in partnering with someone in either long or shorter term projects, or if you have some funds, you could go completely passive and be a limited partner on a larger deal and let those who have the time and skills manage the project actively.More important is starting to network with local investors and get to know your market, your players and find out who is doing a good volume of work in the area you might be interested in- (multi-family long term holds, fix and flips, etc).