Back in 2015 because of my 8 loans in the secondary market difficult to grow my portfolio so turned to a local community bank about $500M in assets - sister bank somewhere in the $4B range.

I hope to learn and grow with you all.

I plan on holding super long term as the area is outside of two different growing cities.  

First, I would really like to step back away from having a lot of time consumed maintaining my home and divert it to learning and be actively investing in real estate.

With two kids under four I want to be around while they grow up.I began my journey about 6 months ago and through strict budgeting and ramping up savings my family is now able to live off of half my take home pay.

We add investors – like any other investment firm - to share profits and grow with – just like Charles Schawb, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, or Fisher Investments who also advertise.

As our family grows she will cut down to part time so my thinking is (correct me if I'm wrong) that banks will not lend as much to her as they will to me.  

All of these companies (and several others like The Michaels Organization, NFI, American Water, Lockheed) already existed in the south jersey area...so there isn't any new job growth causing for Oaklyn/Bellmawr to grow any more than they already were.

I have one 4-room house for students in a smaller, Southern public university market (heavily commuter, growing its out-of-county population) and I don't quite understand the timing of this particular area. 

@Ryan, unless you are a spreadsheet wizard, building one yourself could be quite time consuming ...