It requires sacrifice and delayed gratification.

Make a Sexual offender rental complex. 

The fact is in America, just about everyone has a chance to improve their conditions no matter, their race, socio-economic situation, sexual orientation, whatever.  

Most contractors are not business minded, they want instant gratification.

However if like the business aspect and you started in notes your funds will be tied up for awhile.I personally like LT holds and building wealth with delayed gratification.

Job 1: Your 20s is for working your a$$ off, living below your means, delaying gratification, and thinking long term.

Sounds like she absolutely needs to get out--I can't even tell you how much gratification we both got working on this project together, and calling all the shots (without a boss bossing us around). 

It’s not the city, the location, the lack of train, the lack of jobs......it’s not NYC, Orange County and NYS using newburgh as a dumping ground for every sexual deviant they could find for 30 years.

Do we trade our equity and opportunity and put off my dreams to give my family a better life now or do we continue to delay gratification and stick to the plan?!

I've added some solid sweat equity (maybe not 25% of ARV, but a good chunk of change), and sure, I'd love to be able to dump that equity into other investments, but real estate is about DELAYED GRATIFICATION, and if you're not patient in this game you WILL fail.