Or at the point in which your "passive" income (nothing in RE is truly passive) is well beyond what you want/need to be comfortable, give to charity, leave to your kids, travel the world, etc, then you can simply start consolidating, trading growth for debt reduction. 

Hello Everyone,I'm new to this forum and new to investing. a little bit about me, i'm 38 years old male married no kids, I currently live in NC specifically in Raleigh area, and i am looking at diving into NC housing market but i'm not sure where to start exactly.

I'll have to explore those resources!

Feel free to reach out if you want to explore this option further, as I can help walk you through the various kinds of funds (core vs value-add, private vs crowdfunded, etc). 

A lot of changes in my life lately (change of country of residence, change of job, first kid going to University, etc..)Since I am going to stay in United States for a long period of time my wife and I decided we want to sell the house we owned in our country of origin.

You'll do quite well elsewhere...I had to wait until things were settled with parents, kids, Etc, then it was Hasta La Vista Baby....

I did sign one Matthew and I'll explore that point with counsel - the language there says that the g/tee is of "all or part of the note".I am still having a problem with this limiting me borrowing in a personal capacity and contributing the funds as capital.   

However, now that my kids need more time from me (7 year old and 9 year old), I'm looking to be more in the passive investor spectrum since I've done a lot of "active" investing and it's great, but takes more time than I have.

So not sure worth prospecting the ones that get 1 case every year or two or three.....as some of those won't be sellers....maybe husband/wife survivors that stay in the house, kids move in, they already have a realtor, or some other excuse.You might get the 2020 list and run that for your county or local probate court and see if you can put that in Excel and shift and sort by attorney to see the ones who really are active and handling cases.

Are the new owners professional, blue collar, do they have a lot of kids?