Since we hit financial freedom and neither myself or my wife have to work now, we'll travel around in that. 

Or, because this is actually a pretty decent purchase, maybe you DID think those things through, but just did not fully optimize for the pursuit of early financial freedom.

Here's a podcast I was just on (The Real Estate Way to Wealth and Freedom Ep 54) where I got to go through my journey from 1 duplex to 2,000 units.

We have true freedom and my heart hopes that for others stuck in a day to day grind. 

My professional background is in clinical social work and healthcare administration and, not being familiar with real estate, I was at first skeptical and kept telling myself "maybe one day."

BP has been a wealth of information and the podcasts are extremely motivational for us as we are looking to invest in LTR, buy and hold, to achieve our financial freedom ASAP.

It's more than just a little nest egg in 30 years, we're looking for financial freedom (or at least flexibility) now. 

She is wanting us to buy it as she needs the money for health care ( and keep the property in the family).

So I started with single family buy and hold rentals like a lot of the people here on BiggerPockets. However, being out of state, it seems like the average rental is going to generate 8-15% Cash on Cash returns, depen...

I real like the concept of house hacking my way to financial freedom.