@DeBret McGee IIYour best bet is to secure a deal with creative financing, seller financing or meter lease options.

I could maybe sign up with that theory if the GPs were using the side hustle money as a way of cutting or eliminating their fees & salaries altogether while they try to hang in long enough to hope for enough rate cuts to refinance or the market to unfreeze and let them unload at least at break-even, but I bet none of them do anything of the kind. 

If not, buying a turnkey, rent-ready property could be a better first bet.

I do track the progress of savings/expenditure and hope to someday see a savings someday.

Upgraded infrastructure was needed 10 years ago, but at least we are making some progress.

That property has tenants which would cover the monthly payments at its current rent which is well below market value but the property would need love to justify an increase in rent.Very grateful to have made this much progress in the span of less than a year and a half and currently just trying to make sure I have all of my ducks in a row to ensure I can build these three properties into a stable few investments.Looking forward to the future,Austin

If you are in a high fire zone, the California Fair Plan is likely your best bet.

Do you want to be in dense developed urban (such as Minneapolis), or surrounding urban (Bloomington, Richfield, Edina etc.) suburbs (Maple Grove / Plymouth) or semi-rural "path of progress" (Otsego, Monticello). 

Rachelle, that sounds like exciting progress, and thank you for sharing your strategy with me.

As listing inventory began building up in the spring, we saw prices soften a bit as the summer progressed.