I’m not expecting quick financial gains, I understand that it comes with time and lessons learned and luckily time is something I have a lot of and would like to capitalize on it now With the 401k piece, to my understanding in MD there is no penalty for withdrawing from 401k to use towards first time home buying, I am a personal banker at a national bank and help clients all the time with that all the time.

He works for a national bank and they will not finance anything below 50k$.

Although the macro level metrics might not be as strong as other markets, Birmingham is a good cash flow market due to affordable prices, decent rent and they are among the lowest property taxes in the nation.

Compare your market to the state and national levels?

Come to our monthly women’s group August 28th listed on events page ft Lauderdale to network.

If tenant goes out lender knows in market best case you might get 12 a foot and income stream would change and valuation of the property.You need to see if you have mom and pop tenants,regionals, or nationals and look carefully at every word of the lease agreements including options to renew and timelines given for notice.

Chewy, Adidas, Online Labels, and many other national level companies have DCs in the Scranton Beltway. 

I have a bank account with an investment bank (think of any of the major national investment banks). 

REI Nation “Memphis Invest” is investing there now.

@Erron Pham I’ve been investing with REI Nation (formerly Memphis Invest) for several years and can highly recommend them.Also, look up Ali Boone of Hipster Investments here on BiggerPockets or Google.