Not unless you buy a fixer upper... and good luck scooping one up before somebody here:-/ If you’re putting down a healthy down payment, you could potentially break even and cover your mortgage.

Real Estate for Real Estate, a farm animal producing X amount to a farm animal producing 2x amount, etc.You may already know this, but worth noting on the topic.

Since the land will not likely produce income during the hold period, that may not be an immediate concern. 

Me personally I would make it 10 years max. 144k total in an account that isn’t producing anything for you in the mean time.

@Taylor L.I’ve heard of using commercial lenders since they focus on a different metric that is more catered to producing results rather than what your debt to income ratio is.

I now own a nice portfolio of income producing real estate – virtually all of it purchased with cash by flipping mobile homes in mobile home parks.

Overall it's a healthy market for buyers and sellers

But it was an eye-opener as the author argued that most people could work 2 - 40 hr/week jobs in a sustained fashion if you live healthy, stay focused and don't waste time or let others waste your time.

If it's not going to produce a good return (get a better renter, sell for a higher price) then you might re-evaluate putting that dollar elsewhere.

We created a shared housing model that is now producing 10% to 16% returns on the back-end and almost obscene returns for our front end partners.What is everyone else doing?