Study your market and learn it intimately.

There's absolutely no reason to stop doing anything that doesn't affect your credit.You can analyze deals, get to know some hard money lenders, find off-market properties, make offers on seller-financed deals, go to local REI meetings, drive for dollars, improve your REI team, study up on other REI strategies, try wholesaling a deal, listen to podcasts, study for a real estate license, etc.

Ben,Great job on buying some books and things to study up.

This is a mini case study for me to branch out from my location, South Carolina. 

Sounds wild I know, but trust me I've been committed to achieving it with all my resources for years and been studying my *** off.

Sounds wild I know, but trust me I've been committed to achieving it with all my resources for years and been studying my *** off.

Sounds wild I know, but trust me I've been committed to achieving it with all my resources for years and been studying my *** off.

I've been studying real estate on my own for about a year now and I know how difficult it can be to get approved by a mortgage lender.

Then I can keep them for later projects.With all that said, would you think a year worth of studying every day, and then acquiring spreadsheets, checklists, contracts, team members, networking, analyzing markets, etc., be a pretty good amount of time to not be too risky to start my first flip.

Definitely check out the webinars custodians put out there to get first hand look at case studies.