My goal is to move out after a year and be able to cash flow once both sides are rented. 

There are still deals and ways to make money it’s just not what the gurus from the last 10 years did.

This got out of hand a few years ago.

My biggest one would be leveraging my VA home loan in about 3 years.

New construction going for so cheap in this area as opposed to how much new construction goes for New Jersey made me very interested in just purchasing something that is already completely done and hopefully good to go for the next few years.

pid=2114Houston Real Estate Highlights in August, 2024:• Single-family home sales declined 8.3 percent year-over-year• Days on Market (DOM) for single-family homes went from 43 to 47 days• Total property sales were down 11.2 percent with 8,730 units sold• Total dollar volume declined 8.8 percent to $3.5 billion• The single-family median price was down 0.3 percent to $336,940• The single-family average price rose 0.9 percent to $421,912• Single-family home months of inventory registered a 4.5-months supply, up from 3.2 months last August• Townhome/condominium sales continued to decline, falling 16.7 percent, with the median price statistically flat at $226,000 and the average price declined 1.2 percent to $258,952.

Also reviewed Rentvine last year.

Im wondering if i can use a heloc on my primary residence to either purchase or use for a down payment on an investment property and then refinance the investment property into a conventional 30 year mortgage to “pay myself back?”  

I didn't realize it but they did pay for 2 years (40 % capital returned).

The city’s had a tech boom of over $50 billion in the last five years.