.: New to REI & BP, and debating my first move.My Background:30, single, no kids, no property, high income, fully remote worker$300K to allocate toward real estate (+ $100K/year after tax)Currently renting in NYC but planning to move back to LA (hometown) in summer 2025 or the following yearTired of paying rent and want to start building equityMy Dilemma:1️⃣ House Hack in NYC – Stay a couple more years here, buy a small multi-family now and offset costs with rental income.

Chase is very Veteran friendly, giving us free personal premium plus services like free checks, free cashier's checks and fee-free high school checking accounts to the kids. 

I like to look for locations that are good, and that I’d feel safe and comfortable living in if I was a single woman with a couple of kids.

No thanks.I look at real estate as a lifetime investment, and hopefully future income for my kids and their kids.If you bought a cabin last year and already want to sell, you probably didn't go in with a reasonable expectation of the investment.  

My wife is not going to support time away from our kid to make $12k gross profit.

Multifamily mindset has recruited students from all walks of life such as teachers, medical doctors, veterans, real estate agents, business men, and I was included into a group (multifamily mindset encourages students to form groups) and one of them is a veteran who is divorced, has kids to support, not employed during that time, got a loan of $40,000 for the tuition.

Student rentals are great but can be volatile—turnover, wear and tear, summer vacancies—so leaning on them long-term might get trickier with a kid in the mix.

Not that I got any business from it, but I really liked the young wholesalers (they were good kids that are just trying to do it the right way) that threw it as well as a few of the people that attended.

They look for open layouts, kid-friendly amenities, and smart storage solutions.

@Derrick Roland II Let's see, traffic noise, challenges backing out of your driveway, have to keep kids in backyard and off front sidewalks, big trucks passing by will shake the whole place, can't think of anything positive.All the negatives will reduce your max rent and make it harder/longer to find tenants.What's more important is understanding if the Neighborhood is Class C or D.