Late spring and early summer is usually busier because kids are out of school and there is better moving weather.

Pouring white paint on the face of those kids wont do it.

I want to make sure that I have the freedom to raise my kids and spend time with my family in the future.

That's the sandbox I want to play in (or at least explore).

I’ll explore all three, and discuss the differences of each and how they apply when exploring real estate investments.CoC [Cash-on-Cash]Cash-on-Cash Return is the simplest way to evaluate the performance of a real estate investment.

We are currently under contract, with 2 small kids and all, making the move from our single family home liability to a multi-property live-in/flip househack in North Jersey.

We have been exploring the BP forums and reading anything we can find on development and investment.

You probably don't want his kids filing judgments against you and asking you to "return that golden ring worth 100k that he had hidden in his mattress".. 

I have a decent chunk of money in savings (apart from an $8k emergency fund), no debt, no pets, no kids, no significant other, own my car and have very low living costs for my area (under $1k/mo for a room in a shared house, all included, off-street parking, have been here for 4 years).

I *wish* I could be househacking a fourplex, but I have a wife and a kid, so we needed a 3/2 and I couldn't find a fourplex with anything larger than 2/1's.