Real estate agents will always steer you into the part of an area they are familiar with.

Most real buyers will have agents and will put it in their offer that the payment for the buyer agent come from the settlement funds.

In the meantime, we may also want to renovate our current home to increase its overall and/or rental value.The plan is to scale our real estate investment portfolio pretty aggressively after our next purchase.

Have not yet spoke to local credit unions.This has all been validating to what I’ve been thinking about, but you also brought up a few real world examples that i would have missed. 

This can often lead to bad purchased since neither focus on the fundamentals of the underlying real estate which is what ultimately drives value, appreciation and net profit.

It allows them to be real investors.

Hi everyone,I’m hoping to get some advice from those of you with real estate experience.

I don't know if you're on Facebook, but there are some off market real estate groups for various towns/cities.

Please let us know at biggerpockets.com/guest For this round we're specifically looking for folks who are now real estate investors who fall into one of two experiences:Did you start your real estate journey with a significant amount of savings you were able to stockpile to start your investing journey from a well paying full-time job?

I like using local real estate agents or someone trustworthy from a local FB group that I vet to be inspectors at my properties.