For our specific situation, we are currently kicking around two possible options.1- bring on an experienced general contractor to manage a second property in tandem to my husbands property. 

We are considering moving to Dallas too. 

I would never use a national resource for title searches unless it was a national title underwriter. all my note transactions are done by the local title company  No national vendors all fresh title I know most don't want to do this but I am not going to be that guy that gets a client into a bad title situation.. so we are over kill for sure as we order a new escrow on each note assignment.. but hey better safe than sorry when it comes to our investors dollars.

We are happy to help in any way we can.Congratulations, Manual.

We are happy to help in any way we can.

I'm always willing to partner with other investors feel free to pm me and lets see if we are a good fit,

I also want to to start investing with my brother and father we are about to close on our first deal. we figured between the 3 of us we can save up for down payments faster and spread the risk as well.

Cash flow from rental and Note income would pay a house off in less than about 7 years.... but of course others will say we are nuts  refi to you die and paid for assets are dead equity.. but i look at those that made it through the last down turn who had little to no debt they were fine even though there rentals were vacant for significsant amount of time.. those with max debt literally lost their rentals..

My husband is Navy and we are stationed in Everett.

We'll cut to the chase, here's our dirt.The Facts: Ages 51/44, Married, w/10 yr. old childOne steady income 45KOne low income & fluctuating (self employed only 2 years but growing slowly)Living/ renting in NJ (Very expensive market, 2 family units sell over 500K)Fair amount of debt 37K (Car loan, 2 CC, Medical bills)Just getting by each monthCombined 401K's =  150KMy 401 (100K) can be transferred with no penalty to a self directed IRA (I had opened up last year in hopes of using some cash to invest in RE) We are determined to get into REI however we're probably going to need some creative ways to do it with our current situation.