I've acquired a duplex, single family, quad and even built my dream home (with a custom AirBnB suite) thanks in part to the rental income I have.

Each day I don’t do something is a day lost building my own dream towards financial freedom and just continuing to build someone else’s.Any tips or article suggestions to read on how to get started are much appreciated!  

We have our dream tenant (clean, quiet and never late with rent) in a small, four-unit condo building. 

Be met with NO judgement in this group because we are all in the beginning stages and we will support one another as we all learn and are mentally prepared to achieve GIGANTIC dreams! 

Househacking is the easiest barrier to entry of investing and combines the dream of home ownership with the benefit of having other people cover our mortgage!

It took a lot of planning and commitment, but in one month I will be selling all five homes to start building my first apartment complex with Reunion Investments and purchase my dream home.

Now depending on the number of times you've used the program, your specific military service in some cases, and the loan type there are funding fees for the VA loan program; if you're at 0%-4% down, it's under >4%, 5%-9% down, it's a little over 1.5%, and over 10% down under 1.5%.So if you wanted to sell the investment after time and use this as your primary & house hacking until ‘dream home’ days (or moving out of your in-laws), you could sell and pay off the original loan balance and go this route or pay off original loan amount without selling and keeping it and apply for the one time benefit restoration - which is not the same as entitlement re- installment for active/permanent change of station orders or foreclosed upon properties.

Dave Foster has some great advice about how to leverage a rental/1031 exchange into your dream home. 

I’m also an immigrant who came to this county 9 years ago for undergrad with just two suitcases and a big dream.

Thank you so much for commenting and allowing me see a walking version of my future dreams!