My story is a slow and steady pace of my first year as a real estate investor.My wife and I bought our first property, a 3 flat in the Portage Park neighborhood of Chicago on June 5th, 2015.

HII posted this summary to help a beginner investor in Dallas Ft Worth yesterday...thought there might be some info you could use too...Hi as a beginner investor with the flexibility you have to move often and LIVE in a propertyyou can have the best of all investor  situations with best loan terms, owner occupied PRIORITY TO WIN HUD BIDS and get bank foreclosures, all while maintaining complete control over timing, tenant selection and growing your appreciating income producing portfolio at your own pace.

On pace for 30 by the end of the year.Keep the momentum going folks.  

$800 - 150(vacancy and repairs) = 650 - 417(pitia) = 233.00Even if the property doesn't give us the equity we need, we are on pace for buying another property in about 6 months or so.  

I qualified for my clock hours for the test from Rockwell which was great because it's online and at your pace.

My wife and I were having a conversation recently, the subject of retirement has come up a lot lately, and I was telling her that outside of our 401K money, I was concerned about not being able to push the pace as hard as I can now at work and it affecting how much money I earn so I was saying that we need another plan.

Helps you grow wealth at fastest pace if you can find a market where it works.

I personally liked the online aspect as I was able to go at my own pace and do it when I had time.I also do agree that you will learn most of your knowledge about real estate outside of the class,  but there are things that come up where you remember having studied it for your class.

I will say that I have seen such a massive spike in the prices of homes over that way that it in such a short period of time rents have not been able to keep pace to provide great returns.The vast majority of all of the properties that I have been working on lately have been over in the NE along the 35 corridors.

We have been purchasing single family homes in cash around Denver and Colorado Springs and have kept a steady pace of about 15-20 deals per month.