Hello again,It's been a week since I've found BP and have been doing a lot (A LOT) of reading, and have decided it's time to start some actual activities.I've decided to concentrate on wholesaling in the middle income neighborhoods in and around where I live (South of Chicago & Northwest Indiana) for the next 8-12 months in order to (hopefully!)

Holding works out best when you are after cash flow and also appreciation is a consideration but over all I would say you concentrate on one or the other.

Concentrate on those, and then once you're past that, begin on real estate.

I started looking for this kind of bulk data for Orange County before I decided to concentrate on LA County.  

Besides the HOA, you also have to make sure that the condo community isn't too heavily concentrated with investor-owners (40%, I think), or you won't be able to obtain Fannie Mae financing.

I've been concentrating in North Charleston, but recently I've been investigating, Hanahan, Goose Creek, and Summerville.  

Go do your due diligence on how much business you could expect, determine where you will concentrate your efforts, who you know that would refer you, what areas would be harder to break into due to market share (either someone that is established that owns the area, although there are ways around this too, or there just arent enough home sales to justify any marketing spend.

Back on the very first search screen, there is an criteria called "Asset Concentration Hierarchy" and one of the choices is Mortgage Lending Specialization.

I’ve been a real estate agent since 2006 with RE/MAX, but concentrated only on “traditional” sales, where you deal with buyers and sellers only.

In this case, I wrote down 10-12 flips and acquire 10 buy-and-hold units (a stretch for me, but I believe in setting big goals and letting the subconscious go to work on the how-to).Then a friend mentioned that he wants to do FEWER flips that produce more money per flip, which got me thinking ... should I instead concentrate on the income I'd like to generate?