Home Appreciation: You’ve estimated a 2% annual appreciation rate, which I feel is quite conservative.

He is selling his house and the "home inspector "  says the deck wasnt built to code .

In a perfect world that’s how I would start since it would be a lot easier than buying a home but I’m sure there’s some things I’m overseeing.

If you choose to go with a first time home buyer program, you would need to identify all the terms and advantage of that as MANY are available.

Also I am living in the property but my registered address is still at my other home.

And a handful with 25 to 50 homes.. same thing I fund the front end of the BRRR and they refi and pay me off.My latest adventure is funding land flippers and I have two that are knocking it out of the park..

I would focus on homes with dysfunctional floor plans.

I thought I was a big fish in a little pond back home.

Try to find something that is surrounded by residential homes if you can.

10% down 2nd home loan and savings from the proceeds of already owned STR's.