If you could buy it, what would you do with it as an investment?   

Educating yourself and networking is the perfect foundation for real estate success.What areas of real estate are you most interested in?

Many people told us, just google it and do it. 

No but keep track of those repairs as it will add to your cost basis when you go to sell it and have to pay capital gains.

Similarly, if you put several Class D tenants in a Class A 4-plex, what do you think will happen to the property?

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The way wholesalers get around this is by claiming to simply be marketing the contract and not the property itself (hard to do legally), or by doing a double close (buying the property then reselling it immediately).

I found my laundromat on BizBuySell, and I sold it through that site as well.I still absolutely think it’s worth networking with business brokers and doing direct outreach to business owners, but you don’t need to take listing sites off the table.If you’re sending out a lot of outreach messages on listing sites and you’re not hearing anything back, it may have more to do with you than the platform.

I have been doing this since the mid 80s  over 3500.00 transactions and If I can do it you can do it :)

Getting an LLC in place from the start can provide peace of mind and give you a chance to familiarize yourself with the process before expanding your portfolio.