I wouldn't make a major decision without using a CPA and I've been doing this for twenty.

That's what I've been doing for twenty years.

Hi there -Sorry if this is a pretty broad question but we're just about to get started in REI and after reading a lot about the topic - and listening to a ton of episodes on the BP podcast - we're currently figuring out our strategy going forward.Our ultimate goal is to build a small portfolio to generate income for retirement.So in a nutshell our current idea/strategy is to..Invest in rental properties,Ideally small multi-family (duplex, triplex)Finance 75% on a 15 year (as we're no longer in our twenties..)Monthly cash flow should be about 100-150$ per unit starting from day 1We'd like to use the latter to retire early on a frugal lifestyle using the cash flow and possibly other streams of income before the properties are debt free!

If I had this cat twenty years ago, when I was a college student - assuming I paid a $350 fee and $25/mo. for 4 years - she would have added $1,550 to my overall costs at a time when I was struggling to afford Ramen and a thirty-pack of miller for the week.

It's no Denver in terms of growth, but it has basically gained the population that Cleveland has lost in the past twenty years. 

It is the only way I have bought for about twenty years in AZ WA CA and TX.

I live in a suburb just twenty minutes north of Boston and have plans on investing in this area.

I live in Silicon Valley and Austin looks somewhat like my area twenty years ago.

I found these forums through Brandon Turner’s website when I was googling to see if it was possible to flip houses in my twenties.

Bradenton and Sarasota hit every single one of your targets.... however, they are relatively boring as far as cities go (at least to a mid twenties guy like me).