I didn't mention liability because I don't want to plant the seed in her mind.]2) Telling here about an upcoming plumbing improvement.

@Shai Flax Unrelated person ordinances are area specific so you shouldn't have heard, you would have I assume found a town ordinance that applies.

Most people start the BRRRR process using their own seed money saved up from their day job.

"Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit."

A great take-way here is you dug in and saved your pennies hard early on - you did not start RE with nothing - and then once you had enough seed, took it as hard as you could.What a great success story.

Using your seed capital as a starting point, I would start with asking "do I want to be an active or passive investing AND what is the goal here or what does success look like? 

Instead I slowly planted seeds that allowed me to bring up REI without it sounding so scary.

Even if you don't get the money now, you're at least planting seeds and they may come around deal #3, and #4. 3.

When it comes to brass tacks, you will need to get employment of some type in order to gather enough seed money to be able to build a real estate portfolio. 

If you're looking for cash-flowing markets with some appreciation, there're 20 cities in the USA that has > 1.0 rent/value ratio by default.I put my seeds in multiple cities for cash flow and one in highly appreciativemarket.