I'm a novice Real Estate investor.

It's tough to find good information for novices on DSTs and Leslie's book does a great job of explaining the benefits of 1031s and DSTs in a way that's easy to understand.

I am in Sales & Marketing for a manufacturing company and have a photography business with my wife.I am still a rookie investor, currently with 2 small single family homes as rentals.My goals are to learn daily and build a portfolio of rental properties (residential and commercial) as well as to learn to buy and resell properties.I hope that although I am a novice that I can find ways to chip in and contribute to this community in other ways.Cheers!

I would go with, "You know, I'm really interested in taking this property off your hands so that you can enjoy your retirement as soon as possible, only it might be a little challenging and time consuming to get the right financing for a novice investor like myself from a traditional lender.

Novice concept...I appreciate this discussion, Al!

I'm afraid that I won't have continuous clientele.Any suggestions for a novice on how to make this opprotunity profitable?

New to the forum and site - I am a novice buy and hold investor, looking to find an initial cash flow positive property (and several more).

I am not good at fixing things.I don't know if I am good with tenants - however, I would like to think we'd vet the right tenants.I am a novice at laws and contracts.My new place will be close enough (only about 5 minutes away).

Time and time again I see novices do this and get screwed...but come out of it thinking they got a good deal.

I find a lot of investors, especially the novices, pushing others to invest asap or worse advising others to hold personal homes as rentals or to hold on to a bad investment.