My goal, over the next five years, is to utilize real estate in lieu of my current hourly consulting income, by building a portfolio of rentals.  

@Zach Denny  Similar to what Minna posted above, I have done with a local portfolio lender bank where they set their own lending rules. 

Given the size of portfolio needed that presses a need for it to be mostly A class assets to mitigate operational weight, so it could push closer to $80m in acquisitions. 

You can hear real-world examples of how others have built their investment portfolio and (hopefully) learn to avoid their mistakes.4.

5 Tax Mitigation Strategies Every Real Estate Investor Should KnowAs a real estate investor, every dollar you save in taxes is another dollar you can reinvest into growing your portfolio.

Obviously the end goal is to build my own real estate portfolio, but gotta learn to walk before running and crawling before walking.

As a realtor in the Boston area for the last ten years, and successful AirBnB owner up in NH, I’m ready to shift my focus to building a strong cash flowing portfolio.  

Retired Air Force looking to expand my retirement portfolio into real estate. 

What type of properties are you looking to add to your portfolio?

Now most of the time we don't see househackers/investors use in-house or portfolio loans from banks because sometimes they have more restrictive guidelines and higher fees for holding it which might cause the numbers not to work or for the deal not to go through entirely.