Youth = inexperience and recklessness in the minds of many.  

The inexperience and inevitable mistakes and delays you will have to deal with will bring your costs up.

Jack, I appreciate the constructive criticism, and I’ll admit that inexperience is something that describes me well.

If you go forward with it, you do need to assemble that team... just make sure you have some very experienced operators that can balance out your relative inexperience. 

I have been listening to BiggerPockets for over a year now and feel like I have a nice little chunk of capital saved to get the ball rolling - however, given the volatility of this current market and my inexperience, I'm looking for advice for how to begin investing.

With that said there are two obstacles preventing me from doing so:1) An Overall Inexperience in REI2) No funds to fund deals (Obviously 20 y/o college student)So this essentially means I need to get creative and find other ways to provide value to other investors in order to get involved.

I've also considered hard money in the past but I'm leary of that as a first financing option due to the high rates and my inexperience.

The reason why I am going through a general contractor and not hiring each job out is 1) due to inexperience on what to look for in a rehab and 2) required by my HML (Civic Financial Services) until I have 5 deals under my belt.

Most lenders required 4-6 completed projects in experience.

Between both of your inexperience the process will take months and you’ll be losing money.