Welcome to BP @Nathan CHAPMAN Be sure to read the Bigger Pockets Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing to start and utilize BP for all it has to offer.

The BiggerPockets 'Ultimate Beginners Guide...' has been extremely useful - and encouraging!

I am looking to construct it myself with my background in multi-family construction, and want to hear other investors experiences throughout the entire process, and ultimately was it worth it?

Ultimately, I'm looking for someone familiar with the area, but please let me know what additional information I can provide, or connect with me directly.

This keeps me more than motivated because real estate is the financial vehicle that will get me to my ultimate goal.

The ultimate goal would be to completely pay off the mortgage but a credit card would only partially pay it down, not completely pay it off.

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My ultimate goal is to own multiple large 100 plus unit complexes. 

Ultimately, I'd like to have access to my equity and invest that and earn interest on that or use for other potential projects. 

so the first thing i would ask you is what is your ultimate goal.. if it is to slowly get into investing and build your portfolio over a long span of time while living in your home then yes you should secure agency debt at a great rate to do so, however I would say if you have lived in your house for 2 years plus then you could sell your house to your llc and turn it into an investment property then use that money to fund your next few purchases and go big 3plex 4 plex to commercial house hacking and BRRR along the way