Just think about it - before Charles Schwab, you would call your financial advisor/broker and pay $200 to sell/buy a stock.

I have a few rentals now from Yorktown to Charles city.

@Charles CurleyYou can raise money from friends or family and form a partnership where you are the general partner and they are the limited partners aka silent partners.

I may be able to offer some solutions.Thanks,Charles KappeFounder Connect The Dots Recovery

I suggest listening to the podcast with Charles Roberts on the "boring" path to real estate success.

I currently do this in DC by living in the basement unit and renting out the upstairs, but I doubt you could make this work in DC with only $50k down (you'd have to take out a $750k loan which you probably won't qualify for) But the price points in Prince George's County are around $250k-350k so you probably could make it work there.The numbers definitely work better in Richmond than in the DC metro area but if you are looking for experience then I would buy and live in your first property and self manage it to get the full landlord experience and take advantage of owner occupied financing.Good luck!

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Hey, @Charles Lewis Pinto!  

Charles County MO.   

@Cornelius Charles thanks for the intel.