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If done correctly, using a 5yr plan to get very strategic with personal living expenses and most possibly expand active income and net from such, one should be able to build a heck of a "$-Army" who is than going forward making significant dent's in debt month-after-month year-after-year and beyond. 

Given its strategic location, highway and county road frontage, and its integral role in my farming endeavors, I am seriously considering purchasing the land.

I need strategic advice (and filing) but my situation doesn't warrant these big ticket prices.  

And I agree the vast majority of larger investors started with a nice amount of cash or very robust professional type salary.

It gave me the idea to pinpoint a stressed neighborhood, do some driving for dollars and take the time and effort to do a personalized mailing while just putting up the bandit signs at strategic locations after the mailing.

Based in Los Angeles since 1997, he has completed over 2.5 billion worth of transactions in Southern California and other strategic markets throughout the United States.

It seems that not paying your rent can get things moving pretty quickly, but understand that there is also a robust defense system here in the county.  

I'm not new to real estate per se, but bigger pockets has helped me transform my mind from a passive buy and hold owner to a more long-term and strategic investor--this is my business, not just a hobby.