You should be able to earn a living and build a nest egg to begin accumulating buy and hold investments over time.

Seems the roof was replaced at some point in the 90s and not touched since.His boiler looks old but maintained, the manifold that splits the heat to each unit has a squirrels nest of wiring that looks like he’s done some work.The way I see it, he has a mountain of deferred CAPEX he’s trying to avoid.

I’ve inherited $100k I want to start a nest egg.

What about nest eggs?

Nest, Arlo and alarm.com all are in this game.

  #2 -While living in the duplex, Build 4 -5 properties and sell - #3 - with the Nest egg now in place, build my dream property and  start the Rental property STACK.. with my initial investment of $300K using the above "spec" property description. 

Until you step up to some kind of Commercial Loan, the DTI will be a limiting factor it acquiring future financing.IMO, a fundamental goal of REI is to not encumber personal assets while using OPM to build your REI protfolio - - even looking for non-recourse loans to protect the nest.

I'm definitely going to proceed w/ caution with the nest egg. 

Having a family who finds out that grandma "invested" her money with some guy in RE will start a flurry similar to wasps having water thrown on the nest!

This will be my nest egg...or my investment egg, as it were.