After 20 years as an investor, broker, and lender, I can tell you that house hacking is one of the smartest ways to start.

Securing a good lender can greatly accelerate your real estate investing journey.

I suggest focusing on building your "Core 4" team—agent, lender (one who can finance both the purchase/rehab and refinance is ideal), contractor, and property manager.

Our community is actively identifying and investing in off-market deals, sharing the cost of virtual assistants and direct mail, sponsoring deals, investing our own capital, and having multiple group calls and webinars every week with institutional analysts, real estate and SEC attorneys, regional banks, private lenders, and other experts specifically to discuss and analyze deals within the community.

They'd be much better off being a Hard Money Lender and make 5 times that (and every repair to their "investment house" is paid by them...So, if you put $10k down on a property and make $150/month net cash flow your Coc Return (annualized) is 18% which is Very Good.If you followed that and understand it then keep looking for a deal.

Hi Jerry, BP and local Facebook groups are a great resource for meeting local agents, investors, and lenders who can provide some solid insight into the markets you're interested in.

The only reason I got an LLC was to buy a commercial property because it was a requirement of the lender.

This was important because I had a lender who would lend at 80%LTV. 

I’m certain there will be some type of moratorium or intervention, but the fact of the matter is the balance sheets of impacted lenders will suffer when obligations are not paid on time.

Mortgage lenders will qualify you for a higher purchase amount for multis than they would on a single, because they will count the rent you will be making on the other units as additional qualifying income for your loan application.