Now that we're settled in our new home, I'm looking to find my first property in the next 6-9 months.I'm always looking to meet new people and continue to grow a real estate network. 

The surviving spouse can continue to pay the mortgage and the lender cannot call it. 

Our tenant is moving out at the end of June and we have to decide whether we should continue renting out the house or sell it.

Account Closed, are you able to continue to profitably finance yourself through alternative financing? 

Step one if you want to continue would be to make sure that the person who posted the ad is the person who owns it.

The content and topics resonated, and BiggerPockets provided EXACTLY the resources I needed to continue aggressively learning about real estate along with the tools to put that education into action.MY SHORT-TERM GOALS1.

The security of fannie is what allows for such a low (25%) amount of equity. future investment properties will continue to fall in this 25% bracket I think you can buy a higher rate and do 20% down for the first few, but with rates rising that won't be as lucrative anymore.

One last thought: If separate property continues to maintain its character as such, all the income or growth of such property is also separate – as long as you keep it that way. 

If you look at real estate pricing over the last six recessions, in three of them prices continue to rise and in three of them they dropped.

Continue hitting those networking events, they have definitely helped me expand my professional real estate network down here.