Real Estate Newbie: Best opportunities for a beginner

[Alex Fisher]

What would be the best moves I can make as a beginner looking to invest in real estate? Should I look into buying and selling, flipping, rentals or anything else? I feel that some opportunities would be easiest for any beginner and others would be best to pursue with more experience. Any advice from some one whom, if they had to do it all over again, would do it differently.

* I am almost finished with my real estate courses and I plan to invest in real state on the side and build a nice foundation before I jump in the deep end.

[Paul Timmins]

@Alex Fisher

Welcome. Get a good overview first then decide. Fill in the foundation below.

Check out the Start Here page http://www.biggerpockets.com/starthere

Check out BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginner's Guide - A fantastic free book that walks through many of the key topics of real estate investing.

Check out the free BiggerPockets Podcast - A weekly podcast with interviews and a ton of great advice. And you get the benefit of having over 100 past ones to catch up on.

Locate and attend 3 different local REIA club meetings great place to meet people gather resources and info. Here you will meet wholesalers who provide deals and rehabbers (cash buyers). You can Google to locate them and go to meetup.com

Two Great reads, I bought both J. Scott The Book on Flipping Houses, The Book on Estimating ReHab Costs http://www.biggerpockets.com/flippingbook

Consider checking out HUD homes for small multi's owner occupied gets first crack.

By the way - here are my favorite articles on Wholesaling:

• 9 Reasons You Couldn't Find A Buyer For Your Wholesale Deal
• Don't Start Wholesaling Until You Read This: Wholesale Advice from a Fix and Flipper
• How to Start Wholesaling: Getting Past The Education and Into the Field

Download BP’s newest book here some good due diligence in Chapter 10. Real Estate Rewind Starting over

http://www.biggerpockets.com/files/user/brandonatbp/file/real-estate-rewind-a-biggerpockets-community-book

Good Luck

Paul