Use the time to educate yourself and do research on different areas where you want to invest.

I started my RE journey a few months back after spending some time on BP and reading books to educate myself on best practices.

Check out the guides under the education tab above.

Remember you will have to maintain the license and do continuing education to keep the license active.

However, there is always risk going from a known to an unknown and I don't know what your education/experience level is.

Hello Brit, you seem well educated on the matter now.

Hopefully by the end of this year, I'll have a total of six properties which will pay for my kids educations when they get to university/college.After that though, I'd love to get into apartments (like everyone else).

Education is key.

Hi Sylvia, good question - All of the perspectives coming in from the collective BP community on this topic is intended to educate people who are new to investing in real estate that will be leveraging large amounts of debt in order to acquire properties.

You can also learn how to do such yourself but it will take some time to get educated and gain experience (btw you should still educate yourself while partnering up with others.)