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

Aaron Carroll,Welcome to the forum.First, I recommend that you never post how much money you have, anywhere on the Internet.The Scammers are always looking for that Information.There are many ways to make $$$ in the Real Estate Business.Invest in Single Family, Multi Family, Apartment Buildings, Triple NNN Commercial, Hard Money Lender, Flips, Short Sales, Wraps, the list goes on and on.All of that information is available on this forum.You can use the Search feature, to find more information.If you Invest in any kind of Real Estate, is it going to cause a problem in your Marriage?

We call it: Marriage 2.0 with a real opportunity for FOCUS on wealth building and real estate seems like a great vehicle to help get us there.

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.

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.

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..

Since she is in CA, it will become community property anyway when she gets married unless she has a prenup with her fiance to treat the property as separately owned and not part of the community property.If the marriage lasts, keeping the property as separately owned won't matter.

It is courteous if the landlord or tenant provides a reminder before the end of the tenancy agreement.Ending a periodic termA landlord may end a periodic tenancy if:the landlord or a relative of the landlord wants to move in‘relative’ includes any relative by blood, marriage, adoption or adult interdependent relationshipthe landlord agrees to sell the rental premises, all conditions of the sales agreement have been satisfied or waived and the buyer or a relative of the buyer wants to move inthe buyer must ask the landlord in writing to give the tenant a notice to end the tenancythe landlord intends to demolish the rental premisesthe rental premises are a detached or semi-detached dwelling or one condominium unit and the landlord agrees to sell the rental premises and all conditions of the sales agreement have been satisfied or waivedin these cases, the buyer must ask the landlord in writing to give the tenant a notice to end the tenancyneither the buyer nor the buyer’s relatives have to occupy the rental premisesthe landlord is an educational institution, and the tenant was a student at the beginning of the tenancy but is no longer a studentthe landlord intends to use or rent the rental premises for a non-residential purposeIf a landlord intends to do major renovations that require the rental premises to be vacant or the landlord intends to convert the premises to a condo unit, the landlord must give the tenant one year’s notice to terminate the periodic tenancy.

As nice as my salary seems (in the 80-85K area), with all these other debts, I find it difficult to plan for a future in real estate.I feel as if I am caught between a rock and hard place because I feel like it could take years before I save enough cash to make a down deposit on such an investment, and in that time I assume marriage, kids, personal residency will all take a toll on my finances just further burying myself and impeding my ability to enter the market.

As everyone else says, if you two couldn't make the marriage work, why would you be able to make this type of business arrangement work?