tbd Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

My journey right now is learning more about real estate investing as I've been very passive and bought without much research beforehand.

Local Real Estate Investor Associations (REIA's) also are a great place to network and find a mentor or someone to walk you through getting started.

Breaking news: events in and out of our control will affect real estate both positively and negatively.

Hey BP community,I am considering investing in a real estate developer using the Build, Refinance, Rent & Repeat (BRRR 2.0) strategy.

I'm new to the platform but have been investing in real estate for some time.

Unless you have a Roth SDIRA, there are significant downsides to investing in real estate with an IRA.  

There’s also a good mix of duplexes, triplexes, and quads, so you’ve got options for a solid house hack.House hacking is actually how I got into real estate—I’ve done two house hacks with duplexes here in Chattanooga, and it’s been a game changer.

But ya have to make some educated prognostications in life.Add this to the information your processing - What your talking about doing is eliminating around $4000 or interest expense (which is deductible anyway so really could be a real impact of eliminating $2800 or so) of debt in exchange for paying over $10K in capital gains tax (don't forget possible state gains tax as well).  

This works with any type of appreciating property such as real estate, stocks, etcDepending on the appreciation rate, you can potentially see asset values double every 7-14 years.Likely around 7 years if the appreciation rate is 8%Likely around 14 years if the appreciation rate is 4%If you buy something for $100,000 and it appreciates to $200,000, you can potentially take a loan on the $100,000 appreciation which would not be considered a taxable event.However, be mindful that you are paying interest on the loan and you have to payback the loan but yes, it would not add on to your taxable income.