It is good old fashion american capitalism.

Enjoy the ride!    

I live in a historic town where it's very fashionable to buy the old downtown buildings and fix them up with retail downstairs and loft apartments upstairs.

Whew....I am looking at a multi-family right now and my exit strategy is to ride it until the wheels fall off....so reading the first post in this thread, I was good with everything up until the point she talked about exit strategy....that made me sweat a little bit.

Good luck and enjoy the ride!

Those who are riding the pine right now are missing out.

Hi Chris,RTO and Lease with option and Land Contract and Contract for Deeds are old fashioned midwestern and east coast staple tools.I personally know of hundreds that have been turned into 30 yr fixed mortgages.Now you could call The Republic of California "Mars", and you could call the midwest "Venus" as far as creative financing that actually is common place that actually gets funded.Just ask @Wendy Patton.

No I do not work for Brian, I have my own firm, but if I couldn't invest in my own deals, I know I'd sleep well with my money riding on Brians back.

How would age effect this, since getting into the stock market sooner is always better to take advantage of exponential growth and to ride-out the highs & lows?

In this world you need money to make money the goal to get the most leverage of what you can get out of your small money.Here are some examples:Wholesaling you need to put money in escrow (not alot but you still need to put money in there, plus it can be refundable if you put it that way in your conract), and also you need money to market and find properties.Buying a rental, you have costs for the loan (downpayment and closing costs)Subject to deal, you will still have closing costs at least with the title company, might be able to get ride of downpayment.Hardmoney lenders and private money lenders, the requirements vary but you need an insane deal and high interest rate to get zero downpayment but you still have to payclosing cost with the title company.I don't mean to be discouraging quite the contrary I want you to see reality so you can make an actionable plan.