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You can hit the ground running with a large cashflow 

Renovation costs are capitalized and added to the property’s basis, reducing taxable profit (sale price minus adjusted basis and selling expenses).

I have worked with many experienced investors from Southern California, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Tucson, Denver, and other large metro areas in the southwest and west coast, with seasoned investors that still live in all of those great cities but have shifted most of their real estate investments out of those higher cost or higher risk markets into ours. 1) Compared to most cities in the SW and West, home prices in the Albuquerque metro are relatively affordable.

There is also the added bonus of networking with future colleagues in the class, finding accountability partners, etc.I got licensed online with real estate express.

If you think that wholesaling could be something you like, go to local real estate investing groups and track local wholesalers and see who you can help by adding some sweat equity (usually calling or driving for dollars) for them so you can learn what they do to see if what you are seeing on social media is real.

If you want to do MTRs near large hospitals, then just do that....figure out exactly what you want to do and the rest becomes easier.

Certainly, I know there are many steps and learning to get to that long-term goal.or Investing in apartments starting with small to medium size and with time, experience, and partners to get to large apartments.Which have you found to give you a good balance of time btw investing and family?

I recently just added her to my credit so she can get a little boost in her score to help more with the process and yes with the low down payment I don't expect to live rent free but one can dream for now all I care about is owning the property cashflow will come later.

My primary residence, single family home and a large 7 bedroom duplex