A Living Trust drafted by your attorney where you have a familial relationship as trustees maybe something to explore.

Looking at beach/sun/warm water for the kids- and the opportunity to look at some STR investment areas for myself. 

Most days feel wild with two young kids and zero help.

I had black tenants with 3 kids living in a newly remodeled property and the appraised value came in lower than I had expected.

Kidding aside, what about Denver?

Pay your kids.

We started home educating our kids about 25 years ago.

How do we even teach our kids these days from right to wrong if there is never consequence to their behavior?

In April this year we closed on our starter home, and have since been saving up and doing mountains of research into what to expect in this field.We don't have any kids and don't plan on having any until we have at least 5 doors of real estate, in any combination of either single or <4 unit multis.

This is in central Texas, close to Austin TX so it's likely to increase with the big companies moving in.Rental rate: 3.5K/month (Tenants would be middle-to-high income families with school-aged kids)The house is almost 20 yrs old so could use some paint touchups, flooring buffing, toilets, etc. but overall in decent condition.I'm thinking I'll fix these things as a rental so I can deduct it from the rental income and then plan to sell in 3 years to keep the cap gains exclusion as a primary residence.Rental rate doesn't pass the 1% rule of thumb.