My plan is to keep my current job as an Industrial mechanic, and invest on the side while still working my full time job.

A more stable of building wealth is to have as many rental properties as possible before I'm forced to retire from my physically demanding job, The safer route seems to be to pay off the mortgage rental as fast as possible, which I'm doing.

A more stable of building wealth is to have as many rental properties as possible before I'm forced to retire from my physically demanding job, The safer route seems to be to pay off the mortgage rental as fast as possible, which I'm doing.

Flipping is a job, all be it a good one, but its a job.

Not a seasoned pro here, but it sounds like your agent is flat out not doing her job.

Taking the first step to investigate something is usually the hardest part, so good job on that.  

If you have a job, but wife doesn't, she can qualify for RE professional and deduct beyond the 25K loses, and might be able to get a salary, establish Solo 401K and health plan, etc.  

If they are a General Contractor they probably have multiple job sites running at the same time.  

Great job finding this!

But as an investor and to possibly protect the property from a recession period I also like to look at all the corporate and small business close which correlates to jobs and tenants paying rent consistently without issues.