I'm a broker and property manager here in Huntsville.

My coach suggested (and I implemented) a "must do tracker"....it's a color coded spreadsheet (I like to print multiple copies and keep them on a clipboard to stay in my sight/top of mind). 

If house hacking isn't the best option for me, how would you recommend starting out to build up some investments.

You are not investing in the program.

Purchase price: $28,500 Cash invested: $178,000 Sale price: $250,000 Bought a 3 unit riddled with drugs or prostitutes from the city at the tax auction, spent a year gutting and consolidating all three units in two structures to a single-family home with an exterior side entry garage.

Detroit had a population of 1,800,000 people in the 1950s and was the most valuable city in the USA.

My best recommendation would be to find someone who is doing something similar to what you hope to do in the space and have a coaching call or two.

Typical inner city early 1900’s Akron house.

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