I get where you're coming from, I'm totally not good on the phone with strangers.

Partnering with friends can be difficult, but partnering with strangers sounds too risky.

So basically, knowing absolutely nothing about you, you ask a bunch of strangers to lay out a real estate investing strategy with $100,000.

At my age with no retirement I feel under a great time pressure.So, I am searching all avenues, including Bigger Pockets for education and direction to figure out where my niche will be in this business and I am looking outside the box because the boxes I have opened have either been empty or too full and “complicated”.Happy to meet any and all of you here on Bigger Pockets as I really do believe strangers are just friends I haven’t met yet.

Truth really is stranger than fiction.

I️ run a State Farm Agency in Siler City, NC so I️ am definitely no stranger to marketing, cold calling, door knocking and sales in general.

To me, it's much harder trying to convince strangers to trust you with one of their biggest financial investments.

Birddog - to get some fast cash to fund my venture, although it seems I am doing just as much work here as wholesaling anyway, and am no stranger to signing contracts2. wholesale - same as #13. buy and hold - while that might take two forms, I ultimately want cash flow.I said two forms because it seems buy and hold comes in 2 flavors: rehabbers; those who are allergic to rehabbing.

A stranger doing a deal with you for the first time may not be comfortable with your name and theirs on the PSA.

I just want 4 more weeks in the house to allow the kids to finish the school year, but I don't want strangers coming into the house anytime they want either.