I'm a huge big pockets fan it totally made me rethink my approach to life.

We both have full time jobs & i have a Detailing business, our goal is to be able to leave our "m-f" jobs and live a happier, healthy and more financially free life.

There's no reason to do something that brings a ton of stress and anxiety to your life. 

You'll likely want an entire estate plan drafted including wills and health care directives and powers of attorney, etc. as well. 

Submit it, close and change your life!!

My thinking is that this is my long term home for later in life, but I want to make it beautiful and use the home as a tent pole for other investments.

Basically, in 1996 a married couple out of “love and affection” for the grantee, gifted the property to her “reserving unto themselves a LIFE ESTATE in the herein real estate”.

I would begin my process with alot of learning, first Youtube because its free ,but  Udemy has some really good stuff on their for people beginnning their SEO/Inbound life on a side note if you get good at this, no one will ever assign you a job again because being a top tier SEO guy is VERY lucrative (I'm trying to get their too!). 

Save a "reserve" so you can handle vacancies, maintenance, and all the bad things that pop up when first buying an investment.My recommendation is that you read a book like "Set For Life" by @Scott Trench and get your financial house in order so you go in prepared.

Thanks @John Warren, I'm trying to play all angles here and am also looking into techniques to extend the life of a deck.