Hi everyone,My name is Joseph Montgomery, and I a brand new RE Investor in the area.I've been happily married for the the past 6 yrs now and we have 6 beautiful children(we both had two girls that we were raising alone, when we met; came  together and added a boy, and recently a baby girl) i know that may be a a little TMI for an introduction, but hey thats who i am.I right now am employed as a independent contractor with a courier company in the area, so i do alot of driving around looking at houses..My goal is to be a successful RE Investor full time..making 10 deals per month, averaging 75,000 per month.

@David Sharp The best deals are on Craigslist, people are constantly begging people to drag the unit off their property, you pay $4-5k to move it, and put $7,500-$10,000 into rehabbing it and all of a sudden you have a beautiful home that cost you only $15,000.

But I will say that the beauty of real estate is that EVERYTHING IS NEGOTIABLE.

This was the route taken for my grandparents cottage and it came out beautifully. 

That is the beauty of this... based on your abilities you can create whatever kind of deal you want.

SR is pretty NICE as you know .I like MI there are some beautiful places there no doubt especially up state and of course if your into boating your surrounded by the great lakes.

I wrote another post about this whole experience in the DIY forums.Our first attempt did not go as planned, but still looked interesting.Second attempt/application was more what we wanted and it turned out beautiful!

@Bill Gulley, that was beautiful.

Beautiful!!!

The milestones that you hit on your way to accomplishing your goal is where the beauty rests because you won't forget that journey and what you learned from it.