As I sit here at work staring a 3 day stretch of 16 hours a day, pretty hard to get a lot done outside of here.

If you can put $80,000 down that's do-able in the Midwest but don't stretch yourself financially too much. 

The stretch between Austin to San Antonio is only an hr drive.  

Why that is a challenge is that you don't exactly pay down a mountain of principal during that 5-7 year stretch. 

That's what most of us use to stretch our money further.

you can do ground up construction and although you will need money for down payment etc, you will def stretch your dollars a lot further. happy to provide more thoughts. 

She wants to wait until our kids are a little older before we increase our portfolio so we aren't stretched so thin with our time.

However, who has factored into their investment plan a pandemic that will stretch across two years, and a government who won't let landlords evict? 

Finding and supervising them from 1/2 way around the world seems like a stretch that will most likely cause you a pile of problems you neither want or need.Hiring a GC seems like the most practical thing to do.

It's on a pretty remote stretch of coast southwest of Tallahassee.