My wife and I have overhauled our personal budget to reflect the 'pay yourself first' approach (allocate in order: income comes in -> invest -> donate -> fixed expenses -> variable expenses -> fun $$).We are looking to see what experienced people generally recommend for a holding tank for that 'invest' allocation while we target our first real estate deal.What financial vehicles have you guys used that works well for this?

Assuming you are in Greenville county you can use this estimator.https://www.greenvillecounty.org/appsas400/RealPropertyTaxEs...

This seems to be breaking down new construction and is a national average so kind of hard to read into this what it means in general but I would not expect a 665k new construction house to be my target for a rental property. 

We use Pricelabs.

Both houses have detached garages and I have been considering turning the garages into 1 bedroom units. 

End goal is get into the commercial housing and industrial.

I would also add, a contractor that you can buy materials for and they know how to put them in with little to know direction (reduces the management time of the project).

If this is for real, I strongly suspect you'll need to be an accredited investor.

I would be interested in some input into realistic terms for partnerships.

Hello, bumping this thread to the top.