My dad setup a mutual fund account for me when I was 16 with money that I had saved from birthdays and working; I’ve added to it ever since.

@Jeffrey Flowers The majority of lenders require you to hold the property for 6-12 months.

Until then, buy that woman some flowers and tell her that the best decision you ever made was marrying her. 

Hey everyone,New to the forum, though I've been trying to get educated on real estate investment for a little while now.I've been living in the North DFW area, more specifically Coppell, for a couple years now.I'm getting about ready to make the jump towards my first investment property.I guess I was just hoping to maybe network with local investors to get some feedback on my current thought process.Not really looking for a BRRR, though I'm not 100% against it either.As of now, plan looks like:$250k SFH around Coppell / Southlake /Flower Mound / Grapevine (keeping an eye on Lewisville / The Colony / Roanoke as well).Really appreciate all the available resources on here.Amazingly helpful.Stay safeManu

My goal is to have a place nice enough that tenants are, maybe not proud, but certainly not embarrassed to host a kids birthday party with other parents attending.

paint touchup around home, cosmetic stuff with brick flower bed, taking down a roap swing, removal of a deck in back that is basically a warehouse pallet, possibly some lawn care, etc.

Eventually they realized that although highly practical, it was also highly confusing (and boring) to have both a 1st St. and a 1st Ave, a 2nd St. and a 2nd Ave, etc, that all intersect each other, so they switched all the avenues to nature-related names (mostly trees, birds and flowers but also some scientists and wealthy people's names peppered in like Carnegie, Curie and Tesla).

We added an applicant's social security number and birthday's to our rental application to help with our back grounds checks because it was hard to know if we actually had the right Jane Doe and John Smith.

You send flowers to the next of kin and call it a day.

21st need to be back by 7pm. 22nd day before my birthday. either works.