It might also be worth exploring creative financing to leverage that quarter million into even bigger opportunities. 

I think he is over leveraged to a 90% debt ratio.

The purpose of investing in a syndication is to leverage the sponsor's time, expertise and ability to source great deals, but if the experience is going to cause you to lose sleep at night, the return may not be worth it.

Given Asheville’s high prices, leveraging your brother’s rent is a smart move.

@Jed Butikofer Leverage your $4K–$5K monthly savings to build a diversified real estate portfolio by starting with cash-flowing properties using financing to maximize scalability while maintaining liquidity.

Once you can figure out how to buy your second property, then you've started beginning to master scale.But I have a questions, you said:"Our end goal is to build wealth over the next several years and leverage that wealth to buy multifamily commercial properties!"

The question will be if you can leverage that 300K into a 2 or 3 unit, or even 4. 

but if you're that leveraged, it will be higher risk and very difficult to cash flow - so that is not something I would typically recommend.

@Jun Lee One pro that I can think of a solo 401K is there is no UBIT taxes when an asset u invested that had leverage sales.

Leverage magnifies return. 3) The effort involved in adding an ADU is comparable or larger than a rehab associated with a BRRRR.