I’m also a dog lover and mom to a beautiful Yorkie boy who brings me so much joy.I’m a lifelong learner who loves reading, exploring new ideas, and being part of communities that bring out the best in me.

It does not matter if it's your mother, brother or someone you do not know - the moment you start commingling funds is when you star getting into securities. 

The beauty of real estate is that you can spend as much or as little time on it as you want, it really just depends on the strategy you want to utilize and how active you want to be. 

@Jay Hurst I don’t mind having rates in the 9s at the moment.

@Nicholas L.An ideal situation for me would be to househack a triplex but I’m not finding anything like that at the moment so I figured I could at least start to build some equity and cashflow with the condos in the meantime.

Adding more curb appeal will make it look more beautiful and inviting.#2 Staging will help.

I am interested in doing the same as the OP.I can't at the moment but I would recommend you contact lookup a loan broker in your area who specializes in out of the box lending.

At the moment, we have a project in a town called Park Hills.

In some states however, you need to open the escrow account in the tenants name and unfortunately that is not possible at the moment.

I'm an educator, a personal caocher and business advisor and since my kids has grown up 10 years ago I started doing real estae in Israel, where I live.A few years ago we went into some 3rd party investments in the USA, as part of an LLC group of investors- one in Manhattan and one in Atlanta.Based on the experince I have with those market (as well as Newtom MA, where I lived for 3 years) I lately decided to choose Milwaukee as my next market, focusing at the moment on single family houses.I'm looking into 3/2 single familiy houses to buy and will be happy to work with local agents and build a team.