Hi All,My name is Marc, I’m a new investor located in northern New Jersey.My long term goals are to building a buy/hold/cashflow portfolio to work towards early retirement for my wife or I.

I'm interested in growing my family's wealth and preparing for retirement.  

My goal is to use and leverage real estate to hopefully be semi retired at 35!

Luckily my long commutes have been saved by the Picket Pockets podcasts and my free time spent here on the site and expanding my knowledge through reading.My goals are to be become a buy and hold investor while maintaining my current career so that in the future my retirement and income streams are not solely based on my job and/or equity investments.I do have a question that I would like feedback from the forum as I begin to formulate my plans in the near future:When we go to make the move we will have enough of down payment (20%) saved up for our primary residence and I project my investment property down payment (including reserves) will be realized in another 12 to 18 months.  

I think most investors (at least the investors I know) who buy MH's with land will be paying cash and keeping for retirement income.  

I have an opportunity to buy 4 properties from a retiring landlord.The deal looks like this.$2500 down274,000 purchase price10% interest PITI $ 2422.10Max income would be $2850 (rent)This obviously will not work when you include any taxes, insurance, management, or CAPEX.The properties should be able to be resold for a little over 400 K with some light rehab. 3 of the properties have recently been rehabbed from what I can see.

He is retired and brings in enough to make a $900-$1100 month payment. 

My name is Tim and I've been considering real estate investing as part of my retirement strategy. 

You can become a multi millionaire and be retired in 5-6 years if you learn enough about real estate from BP and use that money to buy quality rentals.

I’m James Goodlett.Brand new to the REI game.Only real experience is the purchase of my home that has since been converted to a rental property.I’m trying my hand at investing as a potential follow on career path.Once upon a time I grew up in KS, but when stateside I’ve lived primarily in TN and AL for the last twenty years.My goals in REI are to simply offset my pending retirement check without being tied to anyone’s whim but mine.I fully understand that work is involved in being successful in this endeavor.BiggerPockets was a recommended source for information and networking.