My gut tells me that your first order of business is to graduate with your degree - hopefully a degree for a field that you enjoy and that pays well - and stash every dollar possible when you do have opportunity to work.

Hey Patricia, Since you are moving forward with the purchase my recommendation is to make sure you have money stashed aside for a rainy day, in other words make sure you have a reserve on hand.

With making 100K+ you should be able to stash away 1-2K per month at a minimum.

If you have other ideas of where to put that money I'm stashing away so that it can work for me (I'm thinking Index Funds in the near future?)

My WHY Is I’m trying to stash my cash away in rental properties because with inflation it is losing money sitting in my savings.

Cause I do want to wait till the summer, it’s an easier job then, ANND I’ll have some cash stashed away by then.

Unlike many, he didn't have a big stash of capital to start with.

We're both truck drivers with lil to no debt and just stashing our cash to invest in a few rental properties.

You might find more issues than you expected during due diligence.Smart Repair Cost Moves:- Stash Extra Cash: Always budget a bit extra for unexpected repairs.

Looking to "house hack" at some point in the near future (recent grad stashing cash for now) to take advantage of a more favorable interest rate and pay less down, and had a question: Say I "hack" Property #1 for a year getting a primary residence interest rate, and move out after a year (and now rent out the entirety of Property #1) and repeat the process with a new property, Property #2, for which I get a primary residence interest rate as I intend to occupy it for a year.