However, for now I will just say I am in the beginning stages and trying to put my team together while I learn how to find and evaluate properties...As I am sure is the case with most newbies...Investors to lend/fund deals, mentor to help me learn how to quickly but appropriately with full details ANALYZE PROPERTIES (there are a million sites out there and I do not want to just rely on RE AGENTS to get back to me) and contractors in areas from Anacortes to Redmond, WAI live in La Conner, WA and am doing this as my last ditch effort to avoid going back to the corporate world and still be able to build generational wealth for the young ones in my family and put myself and my husband on more solid ground for ours.

We installed new HVAC and ditched the radiators.

Mind you this is after working in finance for 10 years and the fact that I’m a mortgage loan officer - I could have gone straight to investing and ditched school.

May be ditching real estate for awhile or just adds a nice little variety (and ROI) to my portfolio!

I ditched the idea of buying anything in CA and started looking out for out of state investment.

So the question is ditch the .com and go with a random one.

@Josiah Patrick Zebarth. if you're not planning on going to college ditch the construction/repair job.

Also, because the property is on an acre of land, we will also slightly change the grade to an advantage and install drain ditches.

I self managed our first 2 after ditching evolve and we are now up to 5 and utilize hostaway to streamline our processes and it has certainly made things easier.

So keep your $5k, pay the higher mortgage payment, and ditch the fear :)(said as a 32 year old, with a wife and 3 kids.