Banks who offer construction financing tend to be 75-80% LTC and alternative/hard money lenders will sometimes offer higher LTC leverage than that.

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It sounds to me that owning a multifamily home would allow you to reach that goal faster because of the higher cash flow.

The better theming will attract a higher quality customer that understands the value.

Expect a higher rent rate, but also higher turnover and longer vacancies.I've rented to dozens of traveling nurses and would say about 50% of them were nuts.

Consider starting with house hacking to reduce housing costs while learning property management, or explore mid-term and short-term rentals for steady or higher income.

Otherwise, I'd say watch those areas closer to Micron understanding the barrier to entry will be significantly higher in exchange for the lower risk.

Credit score- the higher the best. 760-780+ generally gets best pricing for investment property loans with most lenders.

Ironically the invested capital is often very similar for either. because your either investing capital in # of locations to scale, or investing capital in higher quality ie higher cost assets and operational items. 

I like the space as this is pretty fragmented vs MH, so cap rates seems to trend higher.