I am on pace to finish the course before the beginning of March and my short term goal is to join a brokerage firm before May.

Are you familiar with Creative Financing such as Subject To (SubTo), SubTail, WRAPS, Short Term Lending, and Bridge loans? 

Short-Term vs.

The energy in the market is shifting, and we are anticipating that the January data reports, which will be released shortly, will reflect this momentum.The chart below shows the annual cycle of decreasing inventory in Q1 every year for the past 5 years.

If you want real numbers and insights, I have a ton of resources on that.Happy to answer any specific questions, but the short version?

If you want to get a clue about places to avoid investing look at states where insurance premiums have jumped or where homes are uninsurable. 

However, there are other loans designed for fixer uppers referred to us hard money loans, bridge loans, or fix and flip loans but whatever you want to call them they're essentially short term, interest only loans with no prepayment penalties designed to finance a higher % of your purchase price and typically all of your renovations not to exceed a certain % of the ARV (typically 75% max). 

Our short-term residential investment property loans are typically 60-80% LTV and all are personally guaranteed by the borrower(s) -- we pull credit, background and PFS on each guarantor, verify experience, verify liquidity, underwrite the property, neighborhood and zip code.

While this can maximize leverage and ROI, challenges include getting lender approval for seller financing, high carrying costs, and the pressure of short-term loans.

JPMorgan involved in scheme to short fraud currency in their own banks with their own clients?