Honestly in any case, you should have skin in the game before an investor decides to go with you. or you better have a lot of assets in your name that can be used as collateral if you want to go the no money down route.

I'm not really keen on showing that info this early in the game?

Rushing into the wrong deal can kill your career in this game.

I was just writing to someone else about Austin being one of the places I'm looking to invest in. I

The world you are and want to be involved in is too intrusive to be something you and her disagree on in principle.  

Personally I want lead-free on my rentals so I buy properties that are crap and need a lot of work but I know that going in.  I

Both are the same but one is interviewing men and the other women.I did find interesting similarities between the upper half of income earners vs the lower half.Granted, the people barely scraping by are going to have a much harder time getting involved in this game, but all the same, it's a quick read that hopefully reaffirms what most of us are trying to do....be financially well off! 

I also felt more comfortable starting with sfh maybe cause I bought the one I live in :). I

@Alex Craig  good luck on your chicken shop.. you going to franchise that bad boy and get out of the RE game and make some serious dough as a Franchisor ?

Different times, different environment.After making the decision to go back into the game, and after months of reading and listening to BP podcasts, we finally pulled the trigger and put an offer on a house in Vallejo CA.