In the spirit of Goal Setting, here are my top 5 Tips for ensuring you set goals with the highest probability of success. 1.

I'm new here to the BiggerPockets site.

@Ned CareyThanks for the tip!

Here are a few tips to help you get started:Financing: Since you’ll be starting your internship soon, lenders may look at your projected income or require a co-signer until you have a longer work history.

Now IF you have all those bases covered, my tips are: Take GREAT pictures and for the love of all that is holly please no close ups, wide angel pics.

Definitely open to any tips or strategies you’ve used to find deals that work in today’s market! 

I have a hard money lender established to cover 80% of the purchase and 100% of the rehab, so my capital partners would be covering:20% of the purchase priceRange of $30,000-$50,000 cost of capital25% of the renovation budget (to kickstart the project while waiting for reimbursements)$25,000 contingency padAny tips would be great, and if you happen to be interested yourself I can send you more details.

(This is the tip of the iceberg; I would prefer to chat with members than fire lengthy messages back and forth.)1.

@Josh LansberryWelcome to the community and be ready for a huge amount of information at your finger tips.

From the calculators I've looked at, it seems like it makes more sense very-long-term to hold on, but I'd love other's thoughts/resources (I'm not passionate about passing on as-much-as-possible to my kids when I die).From a blog post on this site about when to sell, one of the factors was when things have appreciated more than the rents in the area- but I wasn't sure when it was 'enough.'