We do not have kids yet or any other main reasons to keep us here.  

We own land near my husband's family and had put a new double-wide manufactured home on it in 2003 as we raised the kids. 

I've seen apartment managers who had no clue who someone is and they rarely ask, like what kid or who would have the audacity to use amenities at another project?

Hi and welcome, just by the way you want to start your life says you are a smart kid, real estate can give you very good money and a good retirement, it takes a lot of hard work, dedication and patience, perseverance is the key.

We all have past lives, The difference is some got caught and some didn't doing what ever they did when we were fool hearty kids.

You weren't kidding that retaining wall was a beast!..

If I was single/without kids, I would definitely look at house-hacking a small multi-family.  

He said he gave out magnets everywhere, to local kids, to whoever.

But we undoubtedly will make mistakes and will then share them with the BP community to contribute the conversation.Long term goal is build up to a portfolio of 50 units which will produce sufficient cash flow to pay for our kids college and retire once the kids go off to college.  

The thought is that student housing is less cyclical and more steady as there's always kids going to college.