Reflecting each night and week also gives you encouragement by showing you what fears you've overcome to reach your goals (mine was making phone calls to strangers).This is an ideal journal for agents, wholesalers, property managers, and pretty much anyone who is trying to reach new heights.Has anyone else had experience using the Best Self Journal?

If you don't have ideal rapport and this conversation is uncomfortable, talk to your lawyer first and get some basic advice. 

Ideal, no.

Nearby an area that is considered ideal neighborhood.

Ideally I want to rent it out. 

I know out of state investing isn't ideal but my tax preparer told me after I started working, " you need to have a baby, buy a house, or open a business otherwise Uncle Sam will take your money" real estate investing was the way to go!

Ideally buy a building that doesn't have any major repairs on your first one (potentially only a roof), but no wiring, plumbing, etc. unless you can leverage family members/close friends for these services. 

So MF with onsite PM would be ideal option ( depends on the number of units - above 50-60 units) instead of buying too many SFRs.

Then once you have your goal, you need to create a strategy to obtain that goal and the steps it will take to make that happen.Hope this helps, I manage many homes for engineers, my wife is one and as an active airline pilot I deal with them so I am pretty familiar the mindset of one (I think)If you ever want to sit and chat with me and talk about your plan I would be happy to do so if you think it would help.

We are currently renting and would ideally like to buy a duplex or triplex and live in one of the units, but would like to know our options if we can't get the leases to line up perfectly again.