Hi @Chloe Landon, well ill share my story, I went to school UCSD International Business and I got a master in real estate from Wharton and I work few  years in private equity as a investment analyst and did well and open a consulting firm for  medium and small private equity and joint venture investors in southern California, I have all this fancy college and had a great background and I done it all I was realtor in college, as well as property manager and analyst and now I flip and build projects you name it, so that's me then I have a very smart partner who came to America from Israel with about $2000 bucks and didn't know English he was 20 years old working double shifts and over night he saved and got his citizenship got loan and flip his first house and his business grew wholesaling multifamily complexes in east coast and now we are both in our very late 20s year shy of 30 birthday and thankfully we have company with about 190 units multifamily and we individually own a lot of property and try to flip 15-20 homes per year, so no matter what route you take belive in it hard work and when you think you are tried and cant take it anymore do it for another 5 hours if you really want to be successful you cant quite and you can think this is so hard just do it till you see results and everything in between forget it don't program your mind into thinking its hard or what is best just do something, please PM I love to help a  young mother with any info I can.

I am currently a police officer and my wife is a stay at home mother of three.

I have to say that while I understand where JR T is coming from, I think he exaggerated somewhat.Yes, unless you're making a lot of money, get a large inheritance, or stumble across the mother of all deals, you will have to sacrifice something to get going in this (or any other) business. 

So if a mother in law or older teenager stays out there, they have their independence.We are about ready to pick the AC company.  

.* How good you are at wrangling material logistics* How tight your order of operations is* What kind of weather mother nature gives you (I've got a project in the last 5% of completion that only needs about 4 days of exterior work that's been dragging on for 3 weeks due to rain)We once did a pop-top addition and blow-out renovation in 7 calendar weeks (After permit issuance).

My mother is a full time carer for my father who has been diagnosed with MS ( Multiple Sclerosis).

Make sure you have good insurance on your properties and stop worrying about uncontrollable factors like mother nature!  

Later she would say her bank closed it because it was "compromised", but then said the previous landlords returned security deposit check had bounced, and promised to pay cash on the 8th.Now, as you know the 8th was Mother's Day...

I am going to be cold calling absentee owners to find out who wants to sell their house cash. and am also going to get car window decals for my car and my mothers car (combined we drive about 100 miles a day each) . since you mentioned, i was thinking of doing something like this for the car decals "I buy houses Cash.

Once we had 2nd child, decided to move into mother-in-laws house since she invited us and it's a 2700 sq ft property with no mortgage, big yard for kids, mother-in-law lives on property to help with kids, etc.