Ideally if you can find one that still has exemptions on it, you'll be ok for the next 12-18 months.

When the event happens, scaling to the point of leaving the day job to managing a decent portfolio of buy hold rentals for consistent passive income.My current line of work is in the coffee industry, managing and developing teams globally for a specialty coffee company and more or less living on the road as I help launch cafes from New York to Kyoto.  

I’m interested in Brrrr strategy; ideally multi family.

finding the right property for me to live in will be ideal.

My goal is to buy them with conventional financing, repair them to be rent ready (ideally less than 10K in repairs), and hire a property manager to rent them out.

Maybe the builder did not pay the vendors but then the whole development need to pay that not just this one house.Thanks

This is in a specific development zoned for vacation rentals and will be completed soon.

Every no brings you closer to a yes.With a limited track record you could get a partner on a deal, wholesale a deal until you have enough money to have a bigger deposit, or like @Peter Sanchez and @Alexander Felice mentioned house hacking.Real estate is amazing because you have unlimited options and have to develop the mindset that you are a real estate transactor.Let me know if you need help with anything and I would be happy to help!

I also realize this can possibly be claimed as a business expense, but this does seem like an exorbitant record keeping fee which could ideally be avoided altogether.Thanks guys,Cameron

I am a general contractor in the process of developing a small multifamily complex, it will be a total of four fourplexes, 16 units total.