Tyler Bobo is a very talented realtor with lots of experience with creative financing, owner financing, low-income housing, and distressed property rehabs.

Tyler Bobo is a very talented realtor with lots of experience with creative financing, owner financing, low-income housing, and distressed property rehabs.

Tyler Bobo is a very talented realtor with lots of experience with creative financing, owner financing, low-income housing, and distressed property rehabs.

Finally, your CE instructor was spot on with the observations that the industry is losing talent on one end and not getting enough new people into the profession on the other.

If you can get a contract in place and have a decent background meaning talent, track record, credit history or combination of those things you can likely find a hard money lender to loan you the acquisition cost with you using your cash to handle the renovations. 

Women are more risk-averse as investors, and while this is often blamed on a lack of financial literacy, the issue is more one of confidence, not competence: 45% of women with $1 million in investible assets were deemed financially literate in a study by the Center for Talent Innovation, versus just 39% of men.

For me, I am not talented enough to do my own title search, so I have to buy a title report before I bid. 

I used my talents in negotiating and acquisition, and with creativity to take these 2 properties down.

Unless your husband has a strong foodservice background, is very talented, knows exactly what he's doing and has a very special unique selling proposition you will have a hard time making any serious money in that business right now.

By contrast, some people lose a lot of money investing in real estate because in addition to money it takes time, talent, vision, and ability to deal with people.