I feel that the Bowie club is heavily skewed towards Baltimore investors, and I live in DC, so I'd like to learn more about investor areas and investors that are closer to where I live (DC or Northern Virginia are all a bit more convenient).

this depends heavily on the market you're located in.in a tough market, like where i am...long island...you'll find that now the prices are what they are.

Much easier to finance through the LLC and get no-recourse.I am actually making the exact same kind of offer on a SFH today.I found a property in a little village right off I-70 on a very heavily travelled state route near the Indiana border.

It's listed with several brokers but many of them in Costa Rica rely on walk in traffic and don't always advertise heavily.

Of course, it's hard to have good positive cash-flow when you load one up this heavily though.

There wasn't much on ways of appraising, even though one of the practice tests was heavily testing methods of appraisal.For sure read through the vocab pack that you get.

I am not sure about Florida; but it has always been heavily regulated for traditional lenders, and I suspect probably requires a license for HML.

Some states have laws that heavily favor the tenants.

No matter how many disclosures you as an investor make in a tenant buyer situation, the courts & juries will heavily favor them when push comes to shove if something goes awry i.e. a lender calling the loan due.If you can make it work as a flip, holding it yourself as a rental, or selling it to an investor who will hold it as an investment would be my preference.

College in my opinion is HEAVILY overrated UNLESS you know the field you are going into is high pay and high demand and that in the end you will come out ahead.Sadly many rack up student debt to be doing something ( not saying this is you ) and then switch to something else.