wonderful cute children may become drug addicts, marriages can end in divorce, etc.I can not answer your question, I moved from CA. 

@Cory Lucas this book changed not only my business but my marriage and relationship with my kids.

One thing I would change is when starting out to do a house hack before marriage/kids/dogs/etc, though a few clients are well along those paths, too.My two favorite clients are both pilots, so house hacking works well for them. 

It can be very rewarding, but it can also test a marriage.

I heard along the way that you can hold 4/5 loans per person. Is there something that changes or can be changed once you get married for each to hold 4/5? I heard someone mention something about filing taxes separately..

Some time around house number 12 or number 18, someone in the marriage is going to go "hmmmmm what if we got an apartment complex?!" 

Fortunately, we bought it at a really good price and enjoyed a nice tail wind from cap rate compression, so it was like a bad marriage with a happy ending.

Partnerships are like marriage.

., 97% LTV) unless you’re overall financial picture can support it.I’d definitely say do traditional bank financing with low fixed rates if you can (again, this points to more long term holds than flips), instead of hard or high-rate private money.And as far as partners, the old saying is that a partnership is like a marriage - a lot easier to get into than get out of.

Partners are like marriage, most end badly.