Hi all, Kim Smith here (yes that is my real name!)! My husband and I are just getting into real estate investing after dreaming about it for years! Our plans: buy and hold single family, duplex, triplex and fourplex p...

I'm excited to be apart of this community and am a newbie here.

I am a newbie to real estate investing.

Like many "newbies", I'm going to lean on this community to give me some guidance/help with some of the questions I may have.

hey jordan, i'm from st. louis originally and got lured back last year after a couple years in toronto. my wife and i are new to investing, close on our first property (a little sfr in the shaw neighborhood) in a couple weeks. we're in the same ballpark you are in terms of targets. we've been monitoring duplexes pretty closely for a couple months now, and it seems the market for multi-families in the neighborhoods you're hearing about (tower grove south, tower grove east, fox park) is very competitive. university city and clayton might also be areas to consider (near washington university and on our train line). i'm a newbie to investing but an olbie when it comes to stl, so i'm happy to answer questions you've got to the best of my ability. 

@James Wise who knows that area first hand, is not advising a newbie to start there - and he most likely has the properties there to support his opinion. 

I am total newbie and still working my way towards a first time deal.

Hello BP Members,Sorry in advance for the long post.So, for some background: I have been diving headlong into the material of the site as well as books and other material to get started in REI. I have settled on the s...

Investment Info:

Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment in Raleigh.

Purchase price: $374,000

Cash invested: $6,251

House Hacking a triplex in Raleigh NC. Each unit is approximately ...

This is what all if not most newbie wholesalers don't realize.