You will meet people from different walks of life that will give you different perspectives on real estate investing.

When they're done with your taxes you should meet with them to go over your return, ask any tax questions, discuss any advice they have based on the return they just prepared and share your plans for the next year so they can give you advice on them from a tax perspective. 

From a percentage return perspective, we currently have our money that is ready to invest in real estate sitting in a high yield savings account earning over 5% interest.  

Put this into perspective, back in Dec23 when rates dipped mortgage apps skyrocketed. 2 of my 3 lenders said they had more apps in Dec23 than Apr23-Nov23 combined.

@Ryan Daultonslightly different perspective here.you're both right.look, I'm on Biggerpockets because I'm a real estate investor.  

We currently own a home here and are up over $100K in equity over the course of 4 years and will cash flow around $600 for perspective. 

Where you are building your wealth is the appreciation and don't forget rents tend to go up over time so as time goes on the unit gets more profitable from a cash flow perspective. 

Hi Everyone,I am making a commitment to be more active on here, and going to try to post here a few times a month and also answer questions from my perspective for the younger investors.As the title suggests, I am a long time RE investor, have 3 properties 2 of which I rent out (one is cash flowing $700/mo , YES) I control 1M in assets, have about 250k in equity total.

Search the website for owner financing/land contract/deed of trust, and you'll get the same perspective.  

Mike, I would be happy to help you with any analysis you are doing and share my perspective and data access.