Lastly, all this exposure to every aspect and angle of RE and REI may help you find our exactly where you wish to specialize from the start instead of zig-zagging your way to it later on.

The financing aspect, I typically recommend my clients to go to a lender that it's it hour their career, and those guys aren't usually in banks.

If there is slope on a lot that you are looking to buy, there may be an ECA (Environmentally Critical Area) or slide prone designation tagged onto the property.

I love BP and helps me in all aspects but I also like to learn a lot in person.

I'm extremely critical of credit scores when it comes to applications, and I've turned down countless potential tenants as a result.  

Your eagerness to answer people's questions is admirable, but I think if you watch some of the conversations as they unfold, you'll learn a lot more of the technical aspects of accounting and taxation by reading and absorbing the answers from others.Most of the CPAs here have key word alerts and they will chime in on 99% of the tax related questions.  

What aspect of real estate do you want to get in to?

That just sounds like a lot of work to me :).... at that point you should just consolidate into a single multi-family project.The other aspect of crowdfunding is it lets you participate in deals you perhaps could never do yourself.

I am planning on becoming a realtor and selling properties since I like the entrepreneurial aspect of working on your own time, and also selling properties may help me connect with people in the real estate industry.

We can change certain aspects of the equation (rent amount), and others will change with it (vacancy rate)."