And so it begins.

We all have many facets of our lives.  We have our home and family life.  Our work life.  Our play life, like spending time with our friends.  Our hobby life, like playing softball on the weekends.  This is My Real Estate Life.

I have been involved in Real Estate, in one way or another, my entire life.  As a kid, my family was heavily involved with buying, selling, renting, and rehabbing.  I could both drywall and market a home before the age of 10 and know all of the good, the bad, and the ugly of real estate.  As I got older, I got away from the industry, went to school, got a job, and started a family, the usual stuff.  But somehow or another I found that I was always helping others with their real estate life along the way.

And then it happened.

My husband and I have been thinking of getting a motor home.  We both travel quite a bit for both fun and work and had been keeping our eye on the pricing of one of these homes on wheels for several months.  As we were heading out to visit a family member who lived several hundred miles away, we talking about how this would be the perfect time to use an RV.  We had a long discussion on what we wanted vs what was available and all the goods and bads of owning one.  I remember saying something to the effect of “Motor homes cost a fortune.  At those prices we could put a down payment on a house and have it make us money rather than watching it suck more money every month in gas and insurance.”  My husband looked at me and I knew I should have kept my mouth shut.  Do you ever wish you could hit a back space button on the last sentence?  I do.

And so the search begins.  We are now looking for an investment property out of state where the prices are reasonable.  We also need a Real Estate Agent in our preferred area as well as a property manager for emergencies.