A few years back I bought a 3300sqft single family home for 650k in SilverSpring,MD in a new upscale development that has a mix of townhouses and higher end single family homes (VA loan).

This one family owned a small development of duplexes each half house has three bedrooms and two bathrooms and the family will rent each half house to three students.

During the time you are working toward the 2 year mark concentrate on improving your credit score, living frugally to save every penny and developing relationships with other investors.Choose your friends and associates based on them having money and being interested in real estate investing.

Similar to the 08 housing crash oil is bouncing back from a huge recession and that affected the research and development of many of the big companies thus removing a large potential supply of oil from future production so it may catch up to us just like there’s a housing shortage in many areas now because of how many builders went under from the GFC.

Do you use a particular software/app?

If this was a proper development that was done in the recent past (say the past 50 years or so), you probably will find a lot of supporting documents.

I'm an active healthcare provider, but looking to develop a reliable stream of passive income over the next 10 years.

What method do you use, (or tools/software), to "archive" market trends to ultimately have your own "database" to draw market insight from. 

There's no shortage of courses or folks offering paid coaching, but I'd rather develop a mutually beneficial relationship. 

I love technology and design, so I figured I would get my Masters in Architecture, and eventually be an architect-developer.