I have been bouncing the idea around with family & friends & mentors, and a lot feel that I should wait for a market downtrend to start building a portfolio.

He has a 4x4, but I don’t, and so it’s really difficult to be bouncing around caliche roads in my little suv.

I understand stuff happens, so I had my pm speak with her and let her know if this continues I will have to file a notice to pay or quite . she wrote me a check this month, come to find out the funds were never in her account and her checked bounced!

It sounds like you bounced around quite a bit with those side hustles from one thing to the next and that’s the reason none of them really took off.

I’d love to hear from you and maybe we can bounce some ideas off of each other to what works.

Bouncing off at what others have posted, investing in your home state would be the best for you.We have quite a few different markets here in Texas alone that you're able to pick at least one from the variety we offer. 

Looking to bounce and compare some ideas I have to put one together.

Our focus is buy and hold as our desire is to retire back to OK (I am currently active duty military).Purpose of this blog is to build a network back in OK to bounce ideas off of, find the right people to have in our network for PMs, GCs, and anything else that may assist us in moving our REI forward in the right direction.Just for a quick description of what we are looking for:SFH (possibly duplex) 3/2 around 1000 +/- sqftNeighborhoods we would be willing to raise our kids in ourselves.We really like the 2% rule but willing to consider 1.5% but also look at the 50% rules as well.Would really like to see rents come in around $800...starting to think $700 would be a conservative starting point.Somewhere in the $50-$80K price point.We look forward to connecting with likeminded BPers!

The seller isn't going to wait 3-4 months to close so you can save $18.33 on your mortgage, they do not care, they have a contract that says 1 month (or whatever), and can/will bounce you for that backup offer that's $20k higher than yours who is willing to pay $18.33 for a reasonable closing timeline.

I feel so lucky to have found this forum where I can bounce ideas off of people who have more experience than I do.