Six months is a good default for a full flip, congats if you can get it done faster!

The approach they use is from the old days - brow beat you into signing on, VERY HIGH PRESSURE SALES MEN, telling folks they are getting a 50% off the scholarship from $20K price tag, only available during the call.

If your goal is financial freedom you need an income that meets four requirements:Rent increases faster than inflation: Only if rents increase faster than inflation will you have sufficient dollars to pay inflated prices in the future.Sufficient to replace your current income: You must have sufficient income to replace your current income.Lifelong income: It must continue throughout your life.Low operating costs: Every dollar you lose to operating costs is a dollar less for you to live on.Rents Increase Faster Than InflationWe live on buying power, not a fixed number of dollars.

Since you already own a couple properties.Really just drive around, find beat down houses then start dialing. 

and to be clear - no, there is no obvious / effortless / low risk way to put funds into something RE-related with no experience and easily beat savings or CD returns right now.lots of folks thought there was and got burned.getting in right now requires patience and money. 

You should be at 2-4 meetups a month to make the connections.How are you doing your repair costs and ARV valuation if you aren't sure how to dispo?

I’ve done extremely well so far in the past 5 years of investing by simply meeting with prospective tenants and having a good application to weed out the dead beats.

However, I also see the power of the location and also my understanding is that oceanfront properties have appreciated significantly faster than non-oceanfront.

Thanks Jimmy and Remington, I just DM’d you both.I’m hoping this group to be at least an underwriting/due diligence group, and hopefully a group that finds, manages, and funds deals together when it makes sense. 

You can't beat that....