I have loved real estate all my life. Got my real estate license at 18 right after high school. I have always wanted to be a real estate investor, but the time was never right. This year I plan to close my first de...

You could go into any middle class family home and expect to see the same decor over and over, especially within communities.

That's a lot of windows and you should be able to get a good rate by cutting out the middle man.

Not that low yield is a goal, but comes with the territory.So I'm in the middle stage of my long term 3 stage plan.

My CPA is pretty middle-of-the-road when it comes to these things (not to conservative and not too aggressive).

Unlike a slot machine, where the most you can lose is your bet, real estate has a way of waking up in the middle of the night and saying "I'll take $2000 right now, please."

I would just like to get a reliable property manager that is up to date on marketing and not afraid to use Paypal.I think I would be in the middle of honor system and strict rules and regs.

Do you do this in CA, where you acquire the property vis lease option and then assign or stay in the middle?

There's no way to know.Regardless, the right thing to have done would have been to submit a formal offer (either yourself or through another agent) and if the seller agreed, there wouldn't be a lot of verbal back-and-forth...they would have just signed the offer and you wouldn't be in the middle of all this.So again, in the future, either be able to handle your side of the deal yourself (without an agent) or use your own agent.

It is basically the middle of a city block with driveway access, no real reason to build on it (no one is building in that area).