Good Lord, what an illustration of the concept: "Mo' money, mo' problems."

I met them and now I see they're very concerned but their age and health are indeed making it very difficult to have any control of the situation and they're being taken advantage of enormously.  

@Sophia Villebro I've only seen the professional designation of the P in PLLC in like law, accounting or medical/health firms.I agree with Account Closed in that it sounds unnecessary.   

Act and Consumer Protection Act.Someone on Bigger Pockets recently posted & boasted that they "helped" an elderly widow with serious health problems by buying her house appraised at $290,000 for $60,000 and was "helping" her.

To illustrate just how the Federal Reserve's 14 months of aggressive interest hikes have chilled a major buyer of the residential real estate market, Redfin shows the record-breaking pullback in the chart below: The brokerage said the investors still in the market have shifted to buying or flipping more affordable properties due to tightening credit conditions.

As Paul said above---Just the downtown IU Health expansion alone is massive. 

Because the maximum amount the VA will guarantee is $600k (you can go higher than this, still at 0% down, but this illustration is in the realm of split entitlement - which is your situation, which also applies to you regarding remaining entitlement).Your buddy's home that you want to assume is $250k. $300k + $250k = $550k.$550k is less than the county loan limit of $600k, so it means you can assume the loan as long as you meet the DTI and credit limits.If your buddy's home is >$300k, say $350k, then $300k + $350k = $650k, which is > $600k.

I understand that I'd probably only get my dream home when I'm 50, and that major things like changing budgets, children, health will impact this timeline, but it seems like a low risk real estate method, that will have a similar enough payoff due the fact that I'm fortunate to be making a good salary. 

As an illustration: I built condos last year but missed the market due to contractor delays and rate increases and decided to rent the units.

my wife and i are 42 years old, dual income, no kids (working on that)... we bring home 15k/month after taxes. we save at least 2k a month. our mortgage is $3700/month, locked in at 2.875%. we don't want to/care about paying it off as any other income (stocks, etc.) will easily beat this rate over time.we have about 200k in investments, 20k in liquid cash (spent 150k or so in the last year for health, fertility, and home renovations), my 401k has 775k, wife's has much less due to health issues...we want to either buy rentals (i see this is a rocky risk) or small businesses (Codie Sanchez just opened my eyes to this). other options that sound feasible?