Now i am venturing into hard money which has proven to be a challenge as well.

Faisal,If you are willing to venture a few miles further from downtown Pittsburgh, there will be a few other areas in addition to the ones you mentioned.

Best of luck in your venture of Real Estate Investing!

Hello, I have been interested in Real Estate for quite some time and was hoping to find some answers as to what ways to finance my first real estate project. Being a broke college student one could imagine my biggest ...

This led me down a weird series of events as I didn't know exactly when I wanted to do, and although I made numerous mistakes with ventures that I am no longer pursuing, I learned a lot. 

At first, I was looking into a couple ventures until a person told me just focus on one.

@Jay Hinrichs I would venture to guess that MOST investors should not invest in real property not in their area.Doing real property investments isn't easy and shyte almost always goes wrong along the way.

I hear values will only go up in Newark, but on cash flow alone, they may not hit a 10% annual return if we do a joint venture through an LLC where they get 50% ownership for their 70-80k.  

Here is to wishing you best of luck in your 2019 REI ventures!

Here is to wishing you nothing but GR8 success in your 2019 REI ventures!