However, if one walks 15 minutes the other way (about 0.5 miles), they would arrive in a war-zone, a public housing project where there are murders reported almost every year.

Using your VA loan benefit is another great way to get started in real estate investing.I’m active duty Air Force with four properties.

I live here and want a house in mountain somewhere but can never make the numbers work. 

While working on the house last week, a woman and her adult son stopped by to ask if we would be renting soon.

Our strategy is to buy land cash, take construction loan to build the structures.Some napkin math for this strategy:Land cost : $200,000Building and furnishing Cost: $400,000 for each A-frame (Provided we have electricity, well ready )Airdna revenue estimate shows $400 night rate with 70% occupancy.

Tenant B, the upstairs tenant, complained a couple of weeks ago that tenant A was smoking cannabis on the patio (it is explicitly against the rules of the house and is in the lease).

You can use it as collateral if you want.There are also other loan options available for new construction.

Payment is $450 cheaper ($4400 PITI v $3990 PITI).This is a house hack where the tenant is paying $2100 in Y1 with rent scheduled to increase to $2200.This HH is on a VA loan and I’d like to refi into a conventional loan eventually to reuse my benefits.

Houses are cheaper in AR than in Texas and so is the property tax.

Nobody wants to stay in the house hack.