If you buy real estate, you will spend hours and days and weeks and months of your life dealing with it… Home repairs, guests,… An investment really has to be pretty amazing to sacrifice all that time for itThe houses I own I bought many years ago at dirt cheap prices and dirt cheap mortgage rates.

These companies, run by Kevin Bupp, Brian Spears, and Joanna Bupp, and how they buy up "mom & pop" mobile home parks, jack the rents up immediately to gain the most profit in the shortest amount of time with no care of the low income, fixed income, and elderly that were living in the mobile home parks comfortably.https://www.wivb.com/news/investigates/akron-mobile-home-residents-fight-back-against-out-of-town-owner/1779504663  That's how life works.

Another idea that we have been exploring is using the cash value of whole life insurance funds for emergencies. 

However, I think some upcoming life changes may be the right opportunity for me to dip my toes in the water in real estate investing.I live in Pflugerville, TX (25 minutes from downtown Austin) and will soon be moving to Portland, OR, for my dream job.

I would pick a market area you like and start doing a bunch of deep dive deal analysis, but from a rental and not a life style standpoint.  

I would love to be able to fact check this.Park North (aka Life Spring Estates), Houston, TX - Sponsors: Inman Equity, Djuric Family Office.Best of luck, Cheryl 

Life sucks, then you die.So will the compensation payouts take decades?

Bloody oath I do mate.It's never their fault and always yours (Ours).They rarely take any responsibility and cry victim.It's crazy to think but it's like many intentionally look for drama and deep down inside don't want success but rather problems.Someone to dislike and blame and to feel wronged by.All other personal and "at home" issues can now be blamed on this one unfortunate scenario.This "drama" per se is like food for the hungry and they need such drama in life to "survive".My apologies if my above comments sound weird as they are more so from a philosophical standpoint and just some thoughts that I have considered after 5,000+ investor intro calls and as you have mentioned, others feeling wronged by me or my company on many occasions.What a $#@% way to live IMO but I don't judge and sleep in peace.Again, I have been "wronged" by many but consider it my own fault.I also don't call them out publicly or post bad reviews, etc... 

Makes life way easier as tenants can't go complaining to you about it as its their own responsibility. 

Fro the biggest reason, as you said, you own the home for the Best, First years of its life.