If you can afford to buy something, anything even it is a small one bedroom condo, everyone in the world should buy at least one condo/house for themselves to live in.  

And in todays world we see people want to get rich in real estate basically over night.. :)  But this is what the flipping Gurus teach and many have gotten in trouble promising 40k a month and you to can do that.realization is the average person unless they have access to a few million in cash and loans will never get to those volumes..

@Brian Burke  Brian is right up the road from you in Santa Rosa.. you may want to chat with him off line.Wish you the best. n And if you do nothing not the end of the world you own in one of the strongest markets in the world your debt to equity is outstanding etc etc  you are were many dream to be.. and BP is if nothing full of real estate dreamers who are starting their journey and want to end up where your at. 

Long story short, I am looking to get into the Real Estate Investing world. 

Once a tax lien is purchased the world is your oyster. 

And, professionally, I have been in the world of kitchen and bathroom construction and design for a total of about 9 years. 

In the real estate world, a fine line exists between protection and acceptable risk.

Aloha BP Team - new to the BP community and excited to spread my wings into this real estate investing world. 

Ok so the short story is my wife and I bought a duplex we were currently renting when the owner sold and were introduced into the magical world of house hacking and how great it was.

Oh, and if we were going to stay in this home for many many more years I'd also be more concerned about adding to the mortgage - but the debt has to paid from somewhere at some point, these refi fees are really low, and we can still sell the house in a few years with still getting decent equity back (presuming the world doesn't bottom out), soooo those are the reasons it's all tempting.