Hello Deke,Given you have 1 property completed successfully under your belt, hard money may not be as expensive as you think.

If you have the chance to house hack, this is the way to go, cannot beat living for free, stack the cash and buy RE in the rust belt and get your cash flow rolling in.

Once you become a big player with dozens of transactions under your belt, banks will begin to look at your overall business, business credit history, and business cash flow to determine credit worthiness. 

Scott wrote a good article on this subject awhile back I will try to find it. https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2015/06/0...I would focus on getting good finding profitable deals, funding the deals and building wealth and once you have a couple of properties under your belt then talk to a really good CPA about the best holding strategy. 

Originally posted by Account Closed:I really need to install a seat-belt on my chair so I will stop falling out of it!

The biggest laugh I belted out was with Alex Smith and his idea that the sole goal of the broker is to “close deals”!

Three of those guys are @Dmitriy Fomichenko  @Brian Eastman and @George Blower

at the very least community college then to a state school for a BA/BS. then if you want spend the real money on a MBA/advance degree/certificate (CPA, six sigma black belt, etc).

After you get established following graduation you can then concentrate of saving to invest and getting 2 years of employment under your belt to be able to qualify for financing.

First, a recap of my goals: 1) get a few deals (at least 3) under my belt to build credibility and experience and 2) get plugged into my local RE community in Atlanta.So far, these have not changed.