Would love to get together and share ideas and opinions that would be mutually beneficial. 

Where to invest is a more difficult choice and a lot depends on your goals, your investing style and your strengths.  

Hi everyone,I need some help with color choices for this garage.  

Unless he's a skilled painter and just sees it as a mutually beneficial situation, this sounds like a huge red flag ...... proceed with caution.

It wasn't my plan to get into REI until I bought a new home last year and had little choice but to rent out my condo.

It might be beneficial when you get to that stage to look at a 3% down conventional loan as well.

You ultimately made the right choice with all the updated facts.

A particular loan will require that but it depends on your financing choices.  

My source of funds are taking withdrawals of ROTH contributions (last choice) or using part of a large monetary gift that my parents are going to be gifting to me as part of their estate planning.

I used his reviews to narrow down my choice.