Our vibrant, historic downtown is only 12 miles to Wrightsville Beach (more stand up paddle boards per capita than anywhere else in the world).

It's a great mindset shifter."

No matter how hard you and hubby paddle, you can get further and faster if you patched the holes

I used a family friend who is a retired corporate attorney, he did me a favor when I purchased my first duplex because he could see I was up a creek without a paddle from the get go. 

Paddle boards and kayaks are a great option if the "lake" is swimmable.

Otherwise you'll just be adrift in sea feeling like paddling furiously but getting absolutely nowhere.Build Daily Habits: Look at deals and educate yourself.When I looked through my rental property calculator to see how many deals I had to analyze, it was somewhere in the low 200's.

If you haven't heard of it yet, Mount is an upsell software that gives you the capability to rent out amenities at your property, such as bikes, paddle boards, kayaks, etc...

I just need a couple of W's in the books so we can start paddling in the same direction. 

So a much smaller lake but would be good for swimming/kayaking/paddle boarding.

(Every tax deed auction I've been to requires that you prove that you have the cash when you arrive to even get a bidder's paddle, and also requires cash payment for whatever you buy immediately after the auction ends.)If, by some chance, you found a tax deed auction that allowed for a longer window of time to pay and financing was allowed, then about the only types of financing that I could see even possibly working would be private money (from someone you actually know - like a family member) or maybe hard money (though that'd likely be a stretch too).