So an investor buys the property, you pay them a down payment for the lease option then pay rent for a year and after a year you have option to buy it.What makes this challenging is the lease option payment would probably need to be around 20% of the purchase price but it sounds likeyou do not have it. maybe moving is just not in the cards.

I also like to find win-win scenarios for seniors looking or needing to move into some level of assisted living.

Establishing a good local team will be crucial for you. 

Purchase price: $350,000 Cash invested: $11,500 With the proceeds of the sale of our first fixer upper we purchased this duplex which we moved into one unit and same month purchased another duplex in another town to BRRRR.

The worst is when they don't tell you they are moving out and leave behind enough stuff that you are not sure if they are coming back for it, and they ghost you.  

After few hundred dollars in permits and drawings, submitted to the city, got  approval to move forward in a week :-). 

Does seasoning start when a renter moves into the property? 

I have been following the Real Estate Investing industry for a while and just recently decided to put my focus into it and implement a plan I had in mind for years.So I went down to Puerto Vallarta I put together a team of local realtors, brokers, contractors, property managers and a lawyer. 

I was made to think "if you've put this much time, money, and effort into perfecting the development of secondary suites into SFR's, why would you move your focus onto another strategy?"

Yesterday I found out that my old neighbor who moved away to take care of her father, inherited the house next door upon his death.