That shows real estate can be possible for anyone; in my opinion, I know everyone has unique and challenging situations, but in principle, anyone who can follow some basic budget fundamentals can save up enough for a down payment.Grateful BiggerPockets continues to bring more people into the industry!

So they are good paying retail.. we had 5 to 7 offers on each project .

If they don't show up, projects get very delayed and become unprofitable, even costly.

We're largely looking at value add projects (aka BRRRR **cringe**) so that the vast majority of capital is coming out once a refi is done.Not vanilla, obviously.

Others are exploring different real estate asset classes all together.Notice in that chart in the link above, today's trend isn't too different from how things looked basically until 2010.

The most successful investors systemize and delegate.How to Let Go (Without Losing Control)🔹 Automate – Use rent collection software, project management tools, and automated messaging for tenants.🔹 Delegate – If you’re spending hours on tasks that someone else can do for $20 an hour, it’s time to outsource.

A $10M project repurposing a former grocery store into a dynamic dining and social hub in the heart of FUSE.🚀 Big things are happening in Gastonia—what are your thoughts on these developments?

You can also seek projects through licensed Portals that are using Title III and can accept money from non-accredited investors. 

I think if you leverage 70% of it you’re going to seriously cut into your cash flow and personally if I was going to have $7M in debt I’d prefer it to be spread over several projects built slowly.

I am an accidental builder IE lent to builders who went busto and had to take over the projects. that was in 2013 muddled my way through the first 4 projects that I had to take over .. then felt WTF I am putting up all the money basically and taking the lions share of the risk why dont I just try to do it all..