It sounds like you’re at an exciting juncture with your investing journey, and your professional background in commercial real estate is a strong foundation to build from.Your goal of creating a portfolio for financial flexibility and a legacy for your kids is inspiring, and your hands-on approach with modeling and management is a huge asset.

Do improvements while living there.You can technically do this every 12 months, or as soon as you can save up your next down payment.You can also buy 2-4 unit properties and use FHA to put only 3.5% down.

Even countries that are not technically in the western hemisphere.

A link to FilePlace is at the bottom of every page, so it is easy to find.If you have technical issues, send an email to [email protected] and someone will help you.

I do background checks and such but well, not always accurate.

I did run a light background and employment check, she checks out. 

For single-family and multi-family rentals - plan to put 20-25% down on investment properties.If you find a rental from 2-4 units with a month to month lease or a vacant unit that you could technically move into/would move into after buying within 60 days - plan to put 3.5-5% down. 

I mention this so you know we have a background in financing deals and acquiring them, and not just managing them since my profile label says property manager.)

I mean, they are technically a squatter themselves so why not just put another squatter in that will make them miserable wow keeping them from damaging the property who will then vacate the property whenever that one’s gone.

If you're talking about investing in New Construction versus existing houses, and not GC'ing new construction then your lenders won't care about your construction background.