How much $$$ did you have when you started investing?

[Maranda Tucker]

My husband is convinced we have to be making $200k + a year before we can start investing. I KNOW that isn't the case. I have met a few that started with very little and built their empire over time. 

When you first started investing, how much did you have in your pocket? How much in the bank? Would love to hear from you!

[Sergey A. Petrov]

I had zero or maybe even negative. Barely out of college, with a newborn, wife unemployed. Bought a condo using an FHA loan. It needed some work, water heater blew a week after closing. I remember getting my final estimated settlement statement the day before closing and realizing i was twenty or something bucks short for that due from borrower line item. That $20 was stressful!

Lived in and worked on the condo in the evenings and on the weekends, repainted, replaced flooring, appliances, some other outdated fixtures, sold it two years later with a gain nearly equivalent to my gross W2 earnings at the time. That was 20 some years ago