You also wouldn't qualify for FHA if you weren't willing to live in one of the units.As @Jonathan Gregori mentioned, creative financing is another option with a lot more flexibility.One last thing, if your strategy is aiming for cashflow, then it may be difficult to achieve with a 4-5 unit property for $400k+ in the Sacramento area with <20% down.I wish you the best as you start taking action!

The circuitry is not difficult to understand or follow.For any action you take in real  estate thee will be a reaction, that's part of the circuitry.

My favorite book on real estate is "the millionaire real estate investor" by Gary Keller.Eschew consumer and student loan debt as if your life depends on it....because your financial life quite literally does.

(probably too much studying and not enough action) But I'm now ready.  

There seems to be a lot of action along the I-35 corridor, I know Austin is extremely hot, and Dallas good, hoping some of that spills out to the smaller towns.  

I am a NEWBIE INVESTOR in the Orlando, FL market, just started taking action last year and completed my first deal on my own.

I have liquidity from the previous business to invest and hopefully kick start this endeavor.Biggest challenge - I don't know this industry, I am coming from a completely opposite industry in the technology field.What I have, I think, in my favor, are colleagues from the RE industry with experience in both traditional RE sales (agent/buy/sell) but also experience in the REI side (one owning about 70+ properties and the other owning about 25 properties, both using their properties for passive cashflow)With an engineering/analytical background, my greatest fear right now is the unknown and I am trying to shore up that experience through reading and listening to others, but as I have already discovered, its like taking a drink from the fire hose - way more knowledge than I can consume in a short period of time.Questions I would pose to anyone interesting in providing some feedback -- Best way to look for that first opportunity?  

If you are seeking to enforce a divorce decree, you need to file an action in the state where the divorce decree was entered, regardless of where the property is located.

There is usually a clear disregard for owner's rights and equity, the ramifications of their actions, how their failure  to find a real buyer puts a seller in a bind, all relating back to the lack of understanding I'd hope, not that they intentionally try to cheat or mess someone up.

Its not that they told me anything about this before and I did not take any action on it.Can experienced folks suggest what I should be doing now?