A great way to start is by learning how to analyze deals and exploring strategies like buy-and-hold or house hacking.

🎉 As we kick off 2025, I want to encourage all my fellow Americans stationed in Germany—or preparing to move here—to start thinking differently about your housing allowance.Did you know that your housing allowance could be more than just a rent payment?

The sooner you start getting your hands dirty, the quicker that experience will come.

You won't get rich overnight but you can certainly start to snowball a portfolio and build wealth slowly over the long term.  

I have not done a demo, that's probably a great place for me to start.

@Adam Newman yeah, not understanding your statements, "I have $50k plus about 7k in the bank" and "take out a loan and go in with 20% from the start?".

So, I started with a couple build-to-rent homes, then a couple more, and then felt comfortable to build a mini development.

So in the FWIW file what I see all the time is those trying to start out and getting the same returns as those with a lot of experience. you need to build your experience bucket and as you make your partners money U can adjust profit splits.. other wise I suspect nothing will happen unless of course you can tap your warm market that will do this because they like you.

But we want to get into house flipping and have started looking at the listings here to find investors and properties.My question here is if we are in escrow and we find a property and an investor and get in escrow there, how would that affect the purchase of our new home?

It seems like a simple thing, but reaching out in BiggerPockets about getting started as a real estate investor is a great first step.