Most of us who own RE came into it from somewhere else - either from working a regular job and squirreling away investment money into RE or working in a RE career and acquiring properties in the process. 5.

Use the "extra" income to build a reserve for maintenance, vacancies, and other expenses that don't happen regularly.

Hydrogen that comes from regular tap water via electrolysis.

Then I get the prospective clients making 6 figures on their regular job but they're still swapping out doors on kitchen cabinets or fixing toilet guts in the evenings and can't see the forest through the trees yet. 

I know some regular conventional investment property loan programs have certain rules about this but does Fannie Mae?

I only recommend this route if you are looking up a lot of properties regularly. 

While we both work regular 9-5's, we wanted to do this on the side until we can turn it into a full time thing.

If the house takes longer to sell, we aren't losing money every month on interest payments and can hold for the right sell price.Cons:We lose our regular stable monthly income and have to rebuild again (we have done this before - this would be our 2nd "bootstrap, build, sell" business)We lose our 5 year history when it comes to conventional mortgages and moving into a new home for our own family in the next 2-4 yearsThoughts / recommendations?

Ordinary/regular income: compensation for work or running a business, such as W2 or 1099s, as well as retirement distributions.B.

My priorities are cash flow and tax benefits, and I’m looking at purchasing a 2/2 that fits up to 10 and is along a body of water.