Contact potential sellers who are not actively seeking to sell their real estate holdings.  

Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment.

If you just want to do buy and hold, you can purchase a duplex in a B area for around 150-180k with rents at around $2400/mo total.

Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment.

Due to time constraints (I was a graduate student), I've been holding all my investments passively in ETFs.

The brokerage house can lend on margin for securities they hold. 

I get asked all the time, what can I do with $10k and my answer is "save more"  At least in my world of buy and hold $10k is not going to do much.  

My guess is that their mentors are similar, no barrier to entry, and no major organization or entity that holds them accountable for ethics. 

Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment.

The tax advantages of buying/holding gas stations are pretty great.Many of the components of gas stations including pumps, tanks, external parking areas, and other equipment are classified as either 5 or 15 year property so you can bonus depreciate a lot of it (minus the land value) and get significant deductions in year 1.With the 2025 bonus depreciation rate at 40%, a $1 million gas station acquisition could still lead to $100K+ in year 1 deductions depending on the specifics of your deal.