I was recently stationed in Japan while active duty and throughout my last deployment I committed myself to listening and reading as much as I can on self development, long distance real estate, healthy marriage, and overall life success achievement.

Marriage  Kiddos  then kiddos schoolthis changes your needs .. and then like I said above if your self employed if you want health insurance its expensive..

That cost me over $150K and almost cost me my marriage.

No party to this contract is a family member, related by blood or marriage, is a business associate or shares a business interest with the mortgagor (Sellers).4.

They need to be married for 2 years or more to qualify for 500k exemption. she does not necessarily need to be added to the title to get the exemption after 2 years of marriage.

We had a roommate our first year of marriage because it allowed us to save a ton of money.

I am completely okay with that, and don't feel I need to keep sitting her down and explaining REI to her over and over and over.It hasn't led to the end of our marriage. 

@Rick Roach it’s the norm not to move out until marriage in my culture; they’d be weirded out charging their son rent.

So, while I don't regret the purchase as I did 3 weeks ago, this could have had a hugely negative long term impact on our finances and marriage if we did not have an extra $5,000 to dedicate.

I might analyze 100 properties before I find one that is a fit for a client but when they buy and it closes I make over 6 figures usually per deal.On the residential side strong motivators can be someone is having a family, wanting to move out of mom and dad's house, job transfer and they need a place quick with the relocation, divorce, marriage, lease is up and they can't afford to pay the month to month rate, etc.