The BiggerPockets community is a fantastic resource for networking, learning, and getting advice from experienced investors.

The meet-up is light on the paid-guru stuff, and they bring out fantastic speakers.

Mine has been a fantastic property that we use for short term rentals.

It's fantastic to have you here in the BP Community.

You could become a private lender for people who flip homes, invest in notes or tax liens/deeds, speculate a bit on buying new construction and then selling for a profit when complete, buy shares of a REIT etc.Orlando is a fantastic place to buy and hold, build new construction or even own a STR.

(It's still a fantastic market, and I'm still buying, although the cost of property has gone up somewhat dramatically in the last couple of years and the market has started to get slightly oversupplied on the larger-house side as more and more are being constructed.)I did want to address this question, though.

Starting a real estate portfolio sounds like a fantastic goal, especially with your background in civil engineering.

I got all fantastic tips in this thread!

Columbus presents fantastic opportunities for BRRR investments!

These are the things we can control and our fantastic sources of wealth, if used correctly.