This strategic use of financing and leveraging equity has been crucial in scaling my real estate investments.Key Lesson #3: Diversify Your Real Estate Portfolio Early in my investing journey, I concentrated too much on a single market or type of property.

Right now I am concentrating in the Philly suburbs. 

That's mostly because I don't want to be too heavily concentrated in one area, but partially because it's been rough.

Use MMR available at home depot. 1 product will kill the mold, but the stain remains, the other will remove the stain (super concentrated bleach w surfactant) so, you will need ventilation as it's strong. 

For example, if you want to concentrate on just doing wholesaling,  find a group that does JUST THAT!!

Concentrate on making first the hundreds of thousands in equity (owned equity, not financed property!)

It will save you a lot of valuable time so you can concentrate on growing your investment portfolio instead of crunching numbers.This post originally appeared on the BiggerPockets blog.

The portfolio of homes would do a lot better if the rates weren't trash, and since they are a bigger pockets member they became aware that you can wrap up a bunch of single family homes into a single commercial mortgage (sometimes called a "Blanket Mortgage"), generally if they are geographically concentrated.

Home ownership will get more concentrated. 

Right now I am concentrating on a single style (LTR small multi in CT) and a catastrophic event here would frankly put me out of business.