New in real estate investing (200k cash)

[Nick Sab]

I am new in real estate investing. I have 200 to 300k cash. Heavily invested in stocks etc

Any suggestions on where to buy and start learning without making expensive mistakes? 

[Travis Biziorek]

Learning is pretty easy, as others here have already stated. Exhaust the free resources, figure out what kind of strategy you want to use, a market, etc. and go from there.

I will say, I probably wouldn't sell the stocks to invest in real estate. In fact, it could be a huge asset to you once you know what you're doing.

For example, Interactive Brokers has something like a 6.5% rate on margin loans against your portfolio. That basically means you can borrow up to 50% of your equity holdings at a 6.5% rate.

That's better than just about anything you'll find today in terms of loans, HELOC's, etc.

I'd use that portfolio to lend against and build my RE portfolio.

Best of luck!