I'm in the Anthony Barbato boat wit most of my properties.

@Joseph Diandrea and others in this thread, glad to hear others are in the same boat as me, hopefully we'll be able to help each other out over time!

Trading a boat for a house etc.

I'm in the same boat by being in South Jersey....PA was recommended....so my question is what areas in PA are great investments?

Many of our clients at Holton-Wise are in the same boat as you.

I personally believe that the better way to judge the education of a series of books is by the success that had been attained solely through the education of that book.I've taught Real Estate between 2007 to 2015 in order to teach beginning Investors how to really understand the Financials in a much more sophisticated way and apply it to ANY investment, not just Real Estate.You would learn things like Discounted Cash Flows (DCF), Internal Rates of Return (IRR), Mortgage Analysis and Amortization, etc.Unfortunately, many of the students who read Books like these wound up investing in higher Cash Flow / Lower Appreciation Areas while they lived in the very high Appreciation Cities and neighborhoods.The results are that a lot of the Students completely missed the boat in areas that skyrocketed.For example, while I and several of my personal students bought a 3 Unit Brownstone in Bed-Stuy for $900k, put in $300k or renovations, the building today is worth $2.2 Million.We purchased with an 80% LTV Mortgage of $720k so our down payment was $180k.

Some refer to it as "FIRING THE BOSS", others refer to it as "BURNING THE BOAT".

I'm in the same boat as you right now @Matthew Ware.

To do a VA cash out you must live on that property, FHA kind of follows the same boat for this as well.

@Jonathan Pennings I've been in the same boat.