What you need to learn in your 20s is how professional business works, how to manage people and projects, how to run an organization and how to sell ideas and concepts.

My first home was 6% and my wifes was 8%, so people looking at 7% today as crazy - that was normal.

People doing crazy stuff lately.

Quote from @Jim Vasica: I would get some people out there to quote it..

It sounds like a few people on this thread don't really understand how PMC's operate or why they may charge extra fees.

Four months of arguing with different people and I finally got my $450 back.  

The guy on Youtube that boasts about buying properties with no money out of his pocket and using other people's money from his "community" to pay for closing and carrying costs, said in a video in June that he had 10 Due on Sale called in AZ alone from Jan 2024 to May 2024.

And I see all these people doing it with this scheme and that scheme, and real estate investing content seems a golden ticket. 

I'm not sure if the program is still going on, but has definitely revitalized a lot of the area when it was once destined to follow the way of other older cities that are aging out of existence both in terms of people and property. 

Going to networking events is a great place to meet people.