Hi Luz, congrats on taking your first steps into real estate investing.

Looking forward to real estate investment opportunities

Determine a goal you’d like to work toward financially, is it “financial freedom” (whatever that means to you), buying a business, becoming self employed, becoming a full time real estate investor, having enough cash for your kids college education, having enough to retire, becoming a centi millionaire, etc.3.

But now I’m ready to get back into real estate and have some ideas of how to use our situation to the fullest.

Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

I'm starting my real estate investment journey in the U.S.

Its not real complicated, its purely a math question.

Find a real estate investment group in your area and see if you can find an experienced investor you mesh with. 

I recently read an article about them in Personal Real Estate Investor magazine and it made me curious.

If I am starting out as a real estate investor interested in being a rental landlord (still working out the main type of rental I want to work with), can I refinance the house with a higher rate and make it a rental to my husband as my first rental?