Originally posted by @Gary Phillips: @Jon Klaus Hello Jon.

Investors are too needy unless they are experienced and dot need their hands held.Read the millionaire real estate agent by Gary Keller.

@Gary Parker Thank you very much for sharing my friend!

However, if the numbers don't make sense, I'm not committed to keeping it.Right now I'm reading through Gary Keller's The Millionaire Real Estate Investor and William Nickerson's How I Turned $1000 into Five Million in Real Estate.

I like the The Millionaire Real Estate Investor by Gary KellerThe BiggerPockets Podcasts are also great for road trips.

@Simon Lloyd totally agree with the leverage part @Gary McGowanI'll take any recommendations at this point.I'll probably start off with short term; 1 yr. or less, unless that's considered long LOL

Just an interesting piece of insight, recently I started reading Gary Keller's "The Shift" and in the first section, I see a chart depicting general real estate market trends and wow, according to the graph, I started doing real estate during the worst time of the year right when the market slows and activity declines!

Gary Rivlin, the writer for the New York Times, actually did a great job of researching the story -- he was willing to live in one of our mobile home parks for almost a week to find out what the tenants really were thinking.

Every month I hold an Investors meetup in Newmarket,,, I have one tonight, you can pm me for the details. gary @ realestateventures dot com.

It really depends on whether you want to flip or hold, but either way, I would start with The Millionaire Real Estate Investor by Gary Keller.