I'm currently looking at casting a wide net with a foundation of personal networking combined with social media and other relevant content.

I realize that these things won't happen over night, but the plan is to slowly establish a foundation that I can start to build off of as my experience grows.

If buying a property that sits on it'sown land and the home has been put onto a foundation, then the home & land's value can be calculated like it is a stick built home.

And every person who has ever built generational wealth in America and experienced that freedom has done it on a foundation of real estate.

And on the other side looks like one burnt down, it's a vacant lot with the foundation left in tact.  

For example, if you were told a place needed $50k in foundation work but it wasn't mentioned in the MLS write-up, you're going to want the appraiser to know.As a listing agent in this situation, we'd be trying to do as much of the appraiser's job for them as we can ... we'd provide them with the 3 to 6 comps that we believe are best - we'd highlight our upgrade list - we'd highlight the faults of each comp (especially if it wasn't obvious from the MLS entry) - we'd focus on the number of offers we received and how quickly they came in ... and we'd deliver all of this as a print-out that we'd hand them as we let them into the property to complete their appraisal.Good luck!

I agree that working in sales works great as a foundation for real estate investing.

Hi BiggerPockets members,I'm curious if you can recommend someone to do a foundation inspection for my single family home in the Sacramento CA area?

We're talking toilets and outlets, not a roof or foundation.

The more you places you get through the more you will understand things like termites, plumbing, foundation issues, water in the basement, asbestos ... and the list goes on.