As we’re beginning to get a grasp on the scale of the challenges ahead we wanted to highlight a few areas of note and concern that is already influencing the local and national real estate market.

You are honestly way ahead of the pack already simply by being willing to start learning about this topic in your early 20s.

Need to be sure you include the "unknown budget" and never take the optimistic approach as it is better to have money left at the end than writing more and more checks that were unplanned for.Again, if you can walk through an actual property and compare notes with someone that does it in your area (key factor), you will be way ahead of what a generic book can give you.

The building next to yours looks much nicer and has THREE security vehicles parked in front.

Since our legal billed were $36,000, we’re $100,000 ahead.  

If if you're paying more on the LOC side, you still come out ahead.

Layer on the ability to invest the funds that otherwise would go towards the down payment and transactional costs and you likely come out ahead in such a short term horizon renting.

Happy holidays to all and wishing you a prosperous year ahead. 

I recommend a few things:  define what you want to achieve and why investing in the US is the vehicle to achieving that ROI. 

As someone who’s both a real estate investor and a property manager in RI, I know how important it is to stay ahead of the curve.