The real estate melt-down in 2008-2009 necessitated my unretirement...After looking for some other way to rebuild my retirement portfolio I have circled back to real estate as my vehicle of choice.

The real estate melt-down in 2008-2009 necessitated my unretirement...After looking for some other way to rebuild my retirement portfolio I have circled back to real estate as my vehicle of choice.

Essentially doing the leg work for whole sale agents, saving them time and providing leads.

Your bookkeeping system can tag income and expenses with a property ID or use subaccounts to keep track of income and expenses by property.Since you are a sole proprietor, there is no issue with co-mingling funds and using the same checking account for both personal and rental activities, but, it is much simpler for record keeping to have a separate checking/savings account for the rentals.I have charged stuff on my personal credit card for my rental properties, because I get "rewards" for my charges.  

I have two part time jobs and I'm saving money to invest.The thing is, and I'm glad I've finally found myself, that I love learning.

Oh and I am new and I am not going to prove first I can execute...Just an idea, or put your focus on getting the cash and save yourself a lot of headaches:)Whatever ever you decide I hope it works!

I started looking at investing in real estate as I saved some cash for the last few years.

I plan to keep working to save 20% of down payment to buy an other home rent it, with that cash flow do it over and over again.

I wish I knew about this site when I first started out in real estate, It would of saved my self countless headaches and a lot of money haha.  

He retired from corporate America earlier this year.