@Dwayne Clarke it sounds like you’ve gone through a series of misfortunate events and getting back on the right path.

financing is 10-20 years, depending on a series of factors (see #2).

The "unsecured business line of credit" is simply a business credit card or series of cards.

@Daniel K Houck I have 2 kids and a wife and they don’t want to house hack either so I can relate to your post.The BP Money series interviews a bunch of people where Financial Independence is achieved through frugality, REI, and investing.The story is the same there-start young, make sacrifices before kids, rent out your bedroom in your apartment and sleep on a sofa and grow your own food and use K-cups twice and count each piece of toilet paper etc…and by your mid 30s you are free!

I recommend you start by taking the CCIM introductory course, and then complete the series of CCIM classes.  

I share the details here to show what a series of small low-risk transactions can do over the medium and long term to build passive income for retirement.The PA is for a 1 BR condominium unit in a 150 unit complex where we already have 22 units, bought in 3 earlier transactions.  

He has an 81 page series on stock investing that so far has given me a significant amount of exposure to the different areas.

My greatest shortcoming is estimating rehab costs so by the end of the year I hope to be much more of an expert than I am now.This is the first of my "Tales from an inspection" series.

For an example of what I'm talking about, this guy has some great videos showing him making actual phone calls to real motivated sellers: The tutorials, books and podcast are amazing, and if you guys have already done these kind of videos/blogs let me know... but I think videos/blogs chronicling every detail of real deals as they're in progress from start to finish that you guys are working on would be extremely educational.It would be so awesome to watch a series of videos/podcasts or a series of articles/blogs where Josh or Brandon are detailing every step of the process in a deal that they're currently working on.

I'm using a combination of LP/LLC (series) and maybe a landtrust.