You need to get in the game"I see people are bending the 'rules' of the game to make the current real estate market make sense.

HUD recently accepted my offer on a single-family house, and my bid price is 25% less than the market value, making it a great deal. However, the house requires minor repair work (e.g., several missing railing spindle...

If you have ever heard the saying you have to be in the game to win the game, I have found that you have to look for properties constantly to find the deal you want, but along the way you find a lot of other properties, that if you had your real estate license you could have made money on. 

I'm a newbie investor excited to jump into the real estate game.

I don't like to make moves that will take you out of the game if something went wrong. 

Most of our investors aren’t trying to time a market and I personally think that’s a fools game.

Hard money and private money loans can ultimately feel like high-stakes games, but if you have the appropriate plan in place and add a little comedy to the mix, you'll discover that the trip was well worth it in the end.

@Aramazt Tanashian I'd be cautious as no expert works for free.So, either this person talks a good game, but doesn't know what they are doing, OR they are hiding how they'll make money finding you a property & rehabbing it for them to manage.EXAMPLE: contracting companies make 20-40% markups, so why would this consulting company not charge to handle rehabbing a property for you?

Avoid the capital gains and use your Shedule E, LLC or business returns to offset passive income with great tax deductions and write offs.A fix and Flip can offer a good way to get some fast cash and deal with taxes in aother manner but again its still not the long game I think works best. 

You have all your chips on the table and you can lose in this game, believe me, I've seen people in spots where it looked like they had a clear 50k in profit coming there way and then things go sideways and you hope to break even.