Being the type of person who hates to punch in and out of work, I have always wanted to start .
            
  The field that I am interested in is real estate.  A plan of mine for a few years now .
            
has been to purchase a home, and after some renovation, use it as a rental property.  Once the first .
            
property has a steady income, I will repeat the process over and over until I have mutliple homes in my .
            
name, that I will sell when I am ready to retire.  From the time of purchase of each property, any .
            
money that I spend in the renovation process will be tax deductible.  I will consider myself a property .
            
manager, and the owner of my own business.  .
            
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	Until recently, I planned on keeping this future business local.  I had hoped to be the person .
            
who would drive to the locations of these homes to do the renovations and repairs myself.  While sitting .
            
in diversity class at Cabrini College I enhanced this idea.  I played with the thought of combining rental .
            
properties with a sort of time sharing.  What I mean is, I would like to purchase properties in other .
            
countries as well.  By doing this, I would not be able to manage the properties outside of the United .
            
States.  This gives me the option of either sending someone from the US or hiring someone in that .
            
foreign country to manage the property for me.  .
            
	An example of this idea, would be purchasing a duplex over in Ireland.  Just like in the US this .
            
would be one property that I could let a handyman stay in one half of the duplex for free, as long as he .
            
did all the work on the entire house.  This would include any repairs that the other tenant who was .
            
paying rent would need.  The income that is being produced in the form of rent, will pay the mortgage .
            
over time.  By continuring to do this multiple times in Ireland and here in the US, I could eventually set .
            
up a timeshare for Americans that want to travel to Ireland, and the Irish that want to travel here as .
            
well.  .
            
	There are some pros and cons associated with having a local/national manage my business for .