@Andy Ptak when jumping into the industry you have a few choices:1) Start at the bottom2) Leverage your experience to convince someone to give you a chance3) Decide between:--- Big companies who will usually start you at the bottom--- Small companies that will more like to a chance on hiring you for an above entry level position.

✅ No risk, no cash out of pocket✅ You work with, cooperate with, the homeowner instead of negotiating against them✅ No tenants and toilets✅ No maintenance or repairs✅ Short-term deals with sizeable assignment fees✅ Those fees can fund long-term strategies like buy-and-hold or fix-and-flipIf you’re an aspiring investor looking for a low-cash entry point into real estate, Cooperative Assignments are an effective strategy.  

That would be the minimum entry fee I would think.

Quote from @Benjamin Larabee: Hi all,My wife and I have worked over the last 7 years to build a rental portfolio and are getting to the point where the bookkeeping/data entry tasks are becoming too time consuming.

Can be super lucrative, especially in lower cost college towns where the barrier to entry is lower. 

And they keep their jobs because there is no barrier to entry, and they can't fire themselves. 

Syracuse has been lower priced entry than most of upstate, however we are catching up fast.

Being a NYC resident (originally from Long Island), the price of entry in the area is on the higher end, so I've been considering some options in the NY Capitol region, as well as NJ and CT.

However, its downfall (and what makes it so easy) is that it is a single-entry system.This means there are no checks and balances to ensure all transactions are entered correctly.

Because of that low barrier to entry, plenty of investors from all over are looking at this city.