im a contractor, carpenter and welder by trade. ive been working on distressed homes and commercial properties for about 15 years. worked my way from garbage laborer to superintendent on multiple 60-80 unit buildings in albany anf surrpunding cities for a real estate company. ive been on my own for thr last 3 years working as a GC for other investors on fix and flips and im ready to complete some deals on my own with my skills and experience.i have a family home that i grew up in and its been in rough and distressed condition since i can remember. i am going to take on the renovations and get it up to snuff and will need a ton of work. im ready and able and aware or what it will take and im ready to go. i dont have many mentors so most of this is on me with my own youtubing and bigger pockets knowledge, other than that its gonna be help from friends and family. looking for advice on the project and i can give more details, this is my first time posting or discussing about it. any advice, opinions, info from some seasoned veterans would be extremely beneficial. either way looking forward to putting my passion and confidence in a family home thats been abandoned since ive lived there when i moved out at 17. prob will make some mistakes but im ready to learn lessons and gain wisdom through my first one on my own and keep it going as long as i can with other distressed properties in the area and beyond

If that's right, a house hack of any sort is gonna be really tough financially (I grew up in Ventura County).

I might have figured that out but I grew up in the city and we didn't have raccoons. :)  I have them at my house now, pretty regular.

This has saved me many times over the past 4 years during cash-out refinances.4 - After a while as my 401k balance grew, I was able to take a loan out on 50% of my 'vested' amount.

Should you subsidize downpayments because people can't afford to live in the town they grew up in? 

To translate from country folk terms to city folk terms, that means I wasn’t born with a trust fund, and I grew up on food stamps and in trailer parks.

Revenue quickly grew because selling $500K houses can quickly grow revenue number.

Depending on which specific source you utilize, between 1987 and 2021, the US HPI grew from about 66 to 260 which reflects a yearly unadjusted growth rate of about 8% per year.

You and I were conversing on another thread about how Allegheny County's population grew from 2010 to 2020 for the first time in 50+ years... and then it immediately fell from 2020 to 2021.  

I come from generations of farmers and grew up on that farm back east, so it pains me to have to say it, but the farms in the desert are just not sustainable.