I am not on the market for $380k Lessons learned?

Lessons learned?

Sold 1yr later Lessons learned?

Both strategies offer valuable lessons, but the last thing you want is for a beginner to overleverage themselves and take on more than they can handle.

My oldest is 18, in her first semester of college, and should be house hacking in 2025.

Lessons learned?

The location of the property is near a college and the setup is very similar to college apartments.

So the same investment that one investor thinks is great will look terrible to another and vice versa.I'm a conservative investor and so I require my real estate sponsors to have full real estate cycle experience (with little to no money lost) so they're not learning expensive lessons with my money during a downturn.

Watch this podcast and learn the lesson the cheap way. 

That is a very valuable lesson!