I got a feeling that life as a Private-$ Investor may be a great place to start, and these properties lend a perfect means to testing that out, solving 2 issues in 1 action, because you can JV your way out of the operational side of things AND retain that long term financial upside. 

However, as this WSJ article points out, falling interest rates won’t solve all the problems faced by many buyers in current market conditions.What if I’m a buyer?

I remember thinking how absolutely absurd it was to still be living this way after tripling my income, and on top of that my Wife was getting ready to graduate nursing school which would add even more income but, I had no clue how to keep it from disappearing every month and wondering what happened.

Many companies when applying for a dwelling policy will run an insurance score and loss history report (CLUE report) on an individual in control of the entity even if the policy will be in the name of a business. 

Are you saying that there are people posting advice on Bigger Pockets that don’t have a clue what they’re talking about?

,This situation might be very specific but I am needing help solving this issue.I have someone who would like to sell me their Airbnb House they currently have it under a VA Loan with the Local housing authority. it is assumable but would require me to put more down and would limit their use of the VA Loan until i refinance out of it.the Local Housing authority has been calling mortgages due to anyone they find that are owner financing homes while still having an active mortgage from them on. 

I still have no clue what's happening at my project- I know people don't work for free so I'm sure it's going nowhere. 

@Kenton Guidry - start by reading this thread, including my posts there: Any help for a newbie wanting to start off a real estate adventureThere are plenty of people who do flipping - figure out a problem you can solve for them and they will gladly accept you to shadow them.

That will solve the root cause.

The BLS released the August jobs report on Friday morning. You can read the full details here (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf), but let me summarize what it says and why you should care about this spe...