Quote from @Keith Angell: Hello everyone,I’m looking for some advice as I plan the next steps in my real estate investments.

I moved to Columbus Ohio to start investing in real estate here! 

As repeatedly advocated on BiggerPockets by myself and others, house hacking is one of the best forms of entry into real estate while mitigating risk.

Check out "Colorado Springs real estate investors happy hour" and "Colorado Springs real estate investors club" on meetup.com.

Loan officers with 25 years of experience typically are more experienced, and have less time per file, because they have an abundance of files.Loan officers with 25 months of experience typically are less experienced, but have more time to devote to you.I can't write my own loans, so when I'm getting a loan I prefer working with less busy people when I'm doing my own real estate investment, they're more responsive and dedicated it feels like.

Originally from Africa, I’ve embraced new opportunities to build a better future, and real estate is at the core of my financial freedom plan. 

Seller of said property is not willing to do terms.I go forth into the MLS or elsewhere and find a seller on any type of property willing to do the terms I want AND is ok with me selling their property and substitute the collateral with another real estate asset of same/more value.

For those that do not feel comfortable enough with excel to build out a tool on your own, I would suggest starting by taking excel courses focused on dynamic real estate modeling.

They make their money off of real estate agents, but real estate agents are the worst people to make money off because they are highly unreliable and in and out of the business when the market changes.Their target should be the consumer with higher levels that they can subscribe too for data, since Zillow is linked to the MLS now which makes their data somewhere more reliable.

The RTR team wanted us to invest in real estate and most importantly to see us be successful long term.