If I got in early at his company he would teach me everything about Real Estate and would help me get my feet wet closing deals.

Hello:To this point, I've always bought investment property as an individual.

He also has many conference calls that have a guy on who is teaching an investment methodor strategy.

Each city is a market unto itself with it's own plusses and minuses and must be analyzed individually.

Banks are also notorious for "shopping" your offer for the purpose of getting a better price.I have bought a lot of REOs and have found banks to generally be a lot harder to work with than individuals.

Individual stocks have too much risk for me.

I'm curious if the higher volume individuals have their own "maintenance man" on hand to adress repair issues.

Hi all,I've been a REI for about 3 years now and have finally decided to make the leap and do more deals (the last time I made a deal was 3 years ago, when I started).I've been re-educating myself (books, web) for the past few months and wanted to join a club, meet like minded individuals and learn more from those that are DOING rather than DREAMING.

you really think you've learned a thing or two, and then some tenant teaches you something totally unexpected (and always costly)......

(See my recent post about this).The Background on the Active Real Estate Exception:Rental real estate, in many cases, is held to provide financial security to individuals with moderate incomes.