I would learn all you can, go to meetups, build relationships, but only buy something now if you are going to house hack it for the two years until you go and then just rent out your unit when you go.

My team and I have experience with land and urban infill development.

Purchase price: $295,000 Cash invested: $22,000 Before moving into this house we had to add piers under the hours as the previous were not grounded with cement.

Happy Sunday all, Currently house hacking a 4 Plex property in Chicago, utilized the Fanni mai 5% down.

I learned about the free tools - Zillow, Trulia, Bing Maps, Netronline - how to check title, get BPOs, where to look for bank contacts and sources, how to evaluate the property and develop a bid based upon my initial selected exit and to view REAL deals in progress and watch the results, good or bad.

People do not sell houses or properties like they are a commodity.

It’s the business housed inside the building that makes the money.

@Agustin Silveyra have you looked into finding a house hacking agent yet to guide you?

My houses are usually in the $200K-$250K range

Only bad tenants live in bad neighborhoods no matter how nice the house.