I would like to use the garage as a game room for the kids.

Play the long game and hold onto that equity. 

Congrats - you won the investment game!

Find Brandon's videos on YouTube for the "four square" method of analyzing homes and practice.

Video is very important, shoot walk through video and have that.

"Getting in" is easy; making money, managing the business, with the increased financial risk of commercial properties is a whole different game. 

That would be a game changer is you can use it to buy your second home. 

It is our job to manage the risk at the inception of the project.Thanks for the info and comments.Alan.Good info.I don't mean for you to talk out of class, but Pace Morby says in one of his recent videos that he is doing "table top" closings (closing outside of escrow)  "because he knows what he is doing". 

And given syndications are a marketing game more than a real estate game, it begins to give you real marketing content to share with the world to help drive new leads for future deals.

Thanks tons and if this question sounds very immature, i'd say 'that's about right' given how new to this game we are.Thanks again!