Depending on your income, I would focus on growing your sales business and then dumping all of your income into real estate.

For auctions and sheriff sales, building relationships with local auctioneers and monitoring county websites can be great starting points — wishing you success in growing your portfolio!

@Eugene Brown how do you want to grow?

Quote from @Patrick Osterling: Hey Gabe, we manage a growing portfolio of a dozen STRs across 4 markets in 3 states.

And extra credit cards could be hard to scale as you grow.

Denton's seen 5.2% growth, Kyle's a bit slower, and Buda's part of the growing Austin-Round Rock area.

You can also have a high-yield savings account elsewhere, but a local bank relationship will really help you as you begin to grow.

A 1031 exchange is a great way to indefinitely defer the tax and use it to grow your RE portfolio, and build long term wealth.The most important factor in a 1031 exchange is that your qualified intermediary must be in place prior to the closing of the sale of your old property.

I'm READY to learn, try, and grow!

Yes, I attended a local REIA event and I am now apart of Facebook groups to grow my different avenues of learning about how to get started with wholesaling and other niches