Choose a focus, study it, learn from other investors, read books, visit different markets when you travel, and take action. 

Before exploring this concept with a qualified legal and tax professional, I wonder if any of the community has anecdotal experience around taking a distribution from a 401K and balancing the earned income taxes with paper losses from doing a cost segregation study. 

What if the tenant comes home in a month and discovers the heat went out and the pipes froze throughout the house?

My name is Nate and I am a Sophmore in college (20 years old) and I am studying business.

In addition, he acknowledged I'd learn useful information through the required courses, but I would only be using 10% of the content, and studying every single chapter verbatim would be an inefficient use of my time.

I am a college student studying Construction Management and thinking about getting a minor in real estate.

Thanks to you1st thing I'd do is study all of Cleveland's neighborhoods as they very widely in risk and price.

Study your intended market so you can learn to recognize real deals as they come around. 

As for the shop, you’ll definitely need to have a phase 1 environmental study done as part of your due diligence.

Hi all, I discovered BP last year and have been listening to the podcasts and just being an occasional lurker basically.