This might entail buying a single-family home with rental potential and living in one area while renting out the other units, or it could entail buying a multifamily property and living in one apartment while renting out the others.Financing Options: Look into traditional mortgages, FHA loans (for home hacking), and other inventive financing techniques.

Things I'm considering but would love to hear everyone's pros and cons on: friends and family, hard money, credit cards, others?

Learning a ton of info doing research about turning our 20 plus year primary residence into a rental property. 

Plus I manage my Single families myself.

Recently finished a pole barn to make a family room for large family gatherings.

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I currently have a full-time career as a senior engineer in the aerospace industry, but I’ve always been interested in real estate, and I view REI as a way to supplement my future retirement.I’m interested in initially doing fix and flips to build up capital for buy and hold investments in multi-family properties, and I have about $200K in home equity that I can leverage to get started.

"I will buy at least one single-family home, duplex, triplex, or fourplex before the end of 2019") and then do it.

One of the major draws was that the property appeals to small families and is in a better area.

Yes we used the VA loan on one of the rentals and our primary residence.