Then find the best mentor or expert you can in that kind of investing.

Certainly that makes as much sense as paying farmers to plow their tomatoes under or feeding fat kids pizza and french fries for lunch under the federal nutritional lunch program at school.Because they are scarce and in such high demand, the risk of owning and operating inexpensive rental houses is almost non­existent.

I want to learn as much as I possibly can in the next few years before I formally get into the game :)

Plus there is more supply of condos and nicer condos.I like the idea of either putting a ton down on an investment or paying cash becuase everyone says "insert bad thing here" will never happen ... until it does and your standing there being forced to take less rent while you have a fat mortgage you are having to subsidize with a regular job which is negitive cash flow.I have 40k saved now which will go towards the primary residence and then another 120k worth of raw land I can sell (estate just sold some like lots so I am pretty confident I can get at least 120k). 

Maybe you  haven't been at the bottom and can't understand what money does to quality of life but that's my 100% motivation to ethicaly and morally  make as much money as I can in the shortest amount of time leave something  for my kids so each generation keeps on growing.

Even if they tell you they are just helping the owner with this, I would still try to touch base with the owner to make sure you the person you are talking to can in fact represent them in working this transaction.If you need more help just PM me.....Peter

In your primary residence you can legally do much more than you can in an investment property.

One other word of advice, get licensed if you can, in my opinion it saves you the headache of dealing with whether or not you are brokering without a license.  

You can in an SFR portfolio also rehab SFRs to the next level and sell off individually for higher prices to owner occupied buyers.We like to say that we view our SFR portfolios as an SFR portfolio with a multifamily lens.

I'm currently in the education phase, reading, lisenting and trying to glean as much information as I possibly can in order to take action and be successful.