Im looking to grow and do some work in New Jersey but I'm having a hard time getting my General Contracting license for NJ.

Because leverage uses OPM and allows you to expand more rapidly while still have your cash reserves if necessary.

So as an investor, you need to gain more out of a deal, you need to grow not stay in the same situation.

The Houston area is one of the fastest growing markets anywhere.

Example: a tenant used a pile of leftover bricks behind a shed, that were of no value, to construct a very nice sand-based patio in a spot of the yard near the house that has always struggled to have anything grow there.

I've got some funds secured for buying my first rental property!  However, I have a couple of newbie questions.  I feel like some of these small details get left out in the podcasts.I'm assuming I should get pre-appro...

As far as the future goes: Bend is planning to keep growing.

It turns out that the Kalamazoo REIA has combined with the Grand Rapids one.

I'm looking for feedback from other South Floridians who have been investing down here and what their thoughts are.From what I read you should be looking for areas that are growing, areas that are cheap and going up, areas that have several big employers or areas that are right outside a big city.

I was thinking about something I heard on the BP podcast once about starting out doing bigger deals so that the natural exponential growth of my business would grow off a much larger base.