NC has some fantastic schools in a very concentrated fashion, so I want to go an take a look.Un saludo!

Carswell - tons of books to read and podcast to listen to here on BP, best advice I can give you is find someone you can intern or shadow that invest in the type of real estate you want to invest in.

If you feel you must worry, worry instead that your all-cash offers are as low as possible (because you'd be paying cash), and, that your juggling with your relatives' HELOCs will proceed smoothly, in a timely fashion.

My situation is I am switching jobs internally with the same company, however I am taking a 50% pay cut and don't want to risk my debt to income ratio on a cash out as neither unit is rented just yet.

I would intern at what ever real estate companies your interested in.My daughter was interested in finance.. and she interned during collage with a high level appraisal company that did apprasing for emanate domain cases.. and she worked on the one in Napa CA were the state and city bought out a big swatch of the napa river for flood control project and many business had to be relocated from hotel to shopping center to car dealer all of them needed to be valued.. it was high level work she enjoyed it.she then went on to graduate top of her class at Davis CA.. in managerial economics degree and promptly got snapped up my Intel after offers from Apple and Micro soft.now 14 years later she is a SEnior controller and a Dave Ramsey disciple which means at her age home just about paid for 2 kids in grade school and NO debt and a ton of savings and max's out her 401k.. she has little interest in real estate she owns one rental but only rents it to family. that was her path.  

Hi everybody, I just got my first duplex under contract and will be financing it FHA 3.5% owner occupied, so a little good old fashioned house hacking.

I've been absolutely slammed at work (in international financial consulting no less.

Just the old-fashioned "Buy something, and save for the next thing."

You will find the loan terms to be not as good because the lender instead of borrowing the money from the main banking system will instead have to self fund the loan internally and the money cost more to them.

Once the early adapters have spread the current RE "virus" or strategy at too many meetups, and the trend has become a fashion for all, most don't realize, that it's too late to jump on that band wagon.