I have been a Florida boy for most of my life and have sand and oranges in my blood to prove it.

Kind of like paying a doctor to take blood, or give routine shots.

Real estate investing is in my blood, both my mom and dad were into buy and hold properties - some worked, some didn't.

Dale - Start reading the forums . . . start with the Starting Out and General Real Estate Investing forums and then figure out what area of real estate investing gets your blood flowing, and what works best for your family and its finances.

Some people are warm blooded and some are cold blooded.I am warm blooded so keep my A/C almost at 70.

The time I would have wasted emailing, calling ect was enough but the aggravation and wasted energy of letting my blood pressure rise talking to those people was enough for me to just move on to bigger and better.

Go ahead and waste your vacation day in court trying to get blood from a turnip.  

Who’s OutYouYour SpouseYour natural parents and/or your adoptive parentsYour natural grandparentsYour natural children and/or your adopted childrenThe spouses of your natural childrenAny fiduciary of your IRAAny people providing services to your IRA–such as your stockbroker–as well as his employees and both his and his employees’ blood relativesYour IRA custodian or administratorWho’s InYour brothers and sistersYour Spouse’s brothers and sistersYour spouse’s parentsYour spouse’s grandparentsYour stepchildrenYour spouse’s stepchildrenYour grandparent’s spouse, if not your natural grandparentYour aunts, uncles, and cousins

If not, you're like blood in the water to sharks.

I have been searching for my first property day in and day out for about two months now, and with the market being incredibly competitive where I live, I managed to get approved for a perfect flip house by the blood bath we call Fannie Mae!