I am currently 36 years old and planning to start my real estate investing journey this year.

We both run our own businesses but we feel that real estate will help make sure we both maintain our life plans of not needed to work as much any more.

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What is your plan to obtain this dream?

Ramping up this year but my wife and I ultimately plan to move to Georgia in 2027 (we already have a realtor for the curious). 

With the exception of building a trailer on the property (these are hard to finance), this sounds like a good plan AND if you are using it for your business AND your business pays more than 50% of the rent (if you have more than 1 tenant), then this is a more financeable property in the eyes of banks and credit unions as it would be consider a commercial "owner-occupied" property. 

No, he's not an architect, he drew all designs, floor plan, site plan, etc, and we had a structural engineer design his part, and paid an architect to sign off on them.  

Quote from @Daniel Tanasa: Another option is to get a small cash out refinance from the house you plan on fixing up, if is in financeable condition, and use that to fix it up, while still cash flowing.

I plan to sale the lots that way.

I'm finishing up an ADU garage conversion in Downtown Sac and plan to do medium term rental for travel nurses.