Hopefully I will quickly build up a knowledge base and skill set in real estate investing to enable me to transition into wholesaling and rehabbing.I am very excited to be embarking upon this new career and  look forward to meeting some of you as I move along this journey!

With the big bonus that living here has enabled me to save money and buy my first property in Illinois last June.  

I wasn't planning to as I am going to keep my current job (we have 4 young children) until such time as our real estate business enables me to leave.... if that day should ever come....Thanks for the feedback and I really appreciate the "fire from your fingertips."  

If I had more time/a less demanding schedule, it would be worth it b/c it would enable me to more accurately estimate my rehab costs and justify my offer price.

My point was there are some CF portals that provide the necessary documents to thoroughly analyze deals and make informed decisions about the investment; and there are some CF portals that lack best practice compliance measures to enable Investors to make an informed decision - I'm talking about those that allow the Developer to provide his own appraisals and comps without independent validation; don't require sufficient skin in the game; don't get Personal Guaranty's when needed; etc.  

My answer would be a monthly revenue that would cover all my bills plus additional monies to enable me to live where I want and never need to work a normal job again.

This will enable you to pull out cash based on some type of a percentage of construction completion.

Where are you from Edwinreiloans4u and what do you currently do as a full time profession and why do you wish to make the change to real estate investing and how do you think you will make the change to real estate investing from your current profession which will enable you to support yourself during the transistion to real estate investing?

The information is out there to enable newbies to do things right.

Writing in prices is another technique to overcome psychological barriers of the big prices.6) request credit line increases on day 1 to boost our seed capital (which later felt like it was merely a way of enabling the students to buy the courses if they didn't have the money. 7) One of the aides told me that he was learning to be the course facilitator, but wasn't ready yet until he had it just right.