On a side note: As a new investor myself I am looking to grow my relationships, especially with contracotrs, and would love to hear about your work.

Plus our population is growing steadily which helps maintain property values and rental demand.

At that point you will be using the cash from appreciation/equity instead of your funds.Each time pulling out the intial capital and enough to put down on another property growing your REI protfolio. 

I joined after reading 5-6 of the BP authored books and I've loved growing my understanding of the world of real estate investing.I made my first investment this summer and my family is partnering to make a few investments in the next year.

Looking forward to learning and growing along the way.Best,Dan Hi Dan, welcome to the BP group, any certain type of RE investing appeal to you?

Vet potential partners carefully and aim for relationships that can grow with your portfolio.In this higher interest rate environment, focus on cash flow and creative financing options like the HomeStyle rehab loan or seller financing.

My thought Scott since BP is basically the gold standard with their training courses and we know how popular wholesaling is for beginners and BP having a lot of those starting their journey when you have your training events and such you separate BP from on line Guru's that will just tell you wholesaling with no rules is legal in all states.. which its clearly not.

Generally speaking, if you borrow money at 7% interest and your investment is earning a 10% return, 10% - 7% = 3% and you are not growing faster than inflation.

I would do some market research on top-growing cities and determine which of those cities are within your price range and cashflow goals.

C class is where a lot of OOS investors are going because you'll still get the appreciation from the growing city, but your properties will cash-flow the strongest because of the lower prices.