I am currently on maternity leave and am using as much of the time I can to learn about the buy and hold strategy.

Our current home is a 3 bedroom and I will be losing my home office to the new baby (I work from home).My wife will be on maternity leave July through SeptemberMy wife will likely have to quit her job in September because we are moving out the area (over 50 miles from current home)I work from home for a company based headquartered over 50 miles awayI believe an argument we could make is that I have nowhere to reasonably establish an office in our home. 

After a healthy maternity leave, I hope your soon to be wife will learn that she may be the best version of herself if she can find a healthy balance of paid work and mom work.

I am recently off of maternity leave and don’t have money saved up (but working on it).  

However, due to a job loss and my wife on extended maternity leave - we are less than attractive investors looking to buy.My question is, given this newly found abundance of time on my hands (with less than optimal finances available at the moment to invest), what would experienced RE investors recommend as a great avenue to get my feet wet and prepped for when I can buy and rehab my own properties while also helping build that nest egg to start?

The best laugh was just the amount of mail that kept showing up with new approved/declined creditcard apps, loans, hospital bills (dozens of drug, maternity, and weapon related injuries), etc., all to new names I did not recognize over the next 12 months. 

Currently my wife is on maternity leave and she is cleaning the bnb.

I was mainly worried that she has a baby on the way and will there be income while she is on maternity leave.

Mother of toddler and now infant, hubby works out of town and I'm really debating not returning to work from maternity leave (in order to free up more time).

We were seeking a flip to make up for lost income as my wife was out on maternity with our second baby girl.