Of course, within the framework of an IRA or Solo 401(k), it is not you investing in real estate with that tax sheltered money, but rather the retirement plan being invested in real estate.  

You could really tell the home owner really cared for the home.  

Just be careful to want to get into any deal if it's not a really good deal for you.  

That's going to be lots more expensive.Lol...is your wife going to care if you get any supportive evidence saying that buying the investment properties is the smarter move though?

I'd be careful doing that investment for several reasons.  

Because most of the people that are purchasing condos here are using them as second homes, they care way more about the number of people they can sleep in a unit than they do about the quality of the construction, appliances, etc. 

After that got taken care of it was pretty straight forward.

Granted, it will be taken care of by the management company so I suppose this should be an non issue if I have a good management company.Numbers wise, these properties make perfect sense.  

But as long as he keeps paying the 200 bucks I could care less, I would like to see it stay. 

They work with child cares throughout NC.