Investment Info:Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment.

I mostly buy and hold. 

He told me his accountant told him he needed to buy some real estate to offset some of his taxes.

I’m getting re-acquainted with the BP community after purchasing my first house hack in the Pittsburgh area, and would love to make some connections with other like-minded young professionals and investors in the area.And if there’s anyone out there who’s just getting started and looking to make the jump to buy their first property, I’d love to offer up advice, share my network of contractors in the area, and answer any questions that I can from my experience over the last 6 months!

You can quickly see why looking at this graph - https://www.visualcapitalist.com/buying-vs-renting-house-in-...You can see how in 2015 the average mortgage was cheaper than the average rent, so it was easier to make the math work with light value add and just buying single family homes.

The way wholesalers get around this is by claiming to simply be marketing the contract and not the property itself (hard to do legally), or by doing a double close (buying the property then reselling it immediately).

You will likely have your license and be able to buy/sell.

Why under $300K and where are you looking to buy. 

They've now ended that policy and are now offering incentives to have more children.In Italy & Japan you can buy houses cheap in abandoned villages.

You are correct, buying a four plex is tricky here putting 3.5% down.