If you want to focus on locations with 80+% occupancy rates rather than 20%, here’s a few folks who have been super nice to me along the way:E TN: @Avery CarlFL Panhandle: @Matt 'Roar' GardnerS FL: @Share Ross

Ultimately, it is up to you and what you want to prioritize - there is nothing wrong with getting started in real estate investing right now and at an early age - in fact, as you will find out here on BP, many young adults buy their first property in their early twenties.

The majority of my twenties were a complete disaster.

Who seriously expects the bank is going to call the loan due for the privilege of doing a re-fi producing TWENTY PERCENT LESS revenue ? 

It,s not going to be much good if you put twenty pages together and then have a page of disclaimers attempting to avoid any responsibilty for them taking action on what they just read.

We did not run background and credit checks on our tenants, and we did sort through over twenty applicants before finding two that met our requirements.

@Matt 'Roar' Gardner

I am in my early twenties…little family responsibilities (yet)….relatively low net worth (compared to some of the guys in this thread lol) and I can certainly afford to take more risk …and “chase higher returns”BUT with that being said….regarding my willingness to “roll the dice”…..since we are talking gambling….I like to look at it a little differently in that I’m placing an asymmetric “bet”. 

I usually miss out a lot of numbers when I count and replace them with phrases and insults: "Fifteen, sixteen, like that, hell yeah, stone-stupid, twenty, twenty-one. mule-kicked-in-the-head, bring it, all mine, twenty-five..." 

Twenty years in the business and worked as the Managing Broker for DPR Commercial for almost four years.