Hi All, I'm new to the Bigger Pockets world, and real estate investing in general, but I"m excited to be here learning from the site and all of you.

My advice to a real estate newbie would be to capitalize on all of the free resources this site has available at your disposal.

Welcome to the site, Jared. 

BP is the ultimate real estate investing site around!

I’m going to visit the site today to see how much work is needed to be done.

After sending my $101 deposit the auction site told me the seller refused to sell this.

@Ray Harrell I'm sure I can find an example of this somewhere on the site but since you brought it up is there any sort of standard to figure out how much you should be offering for something like this?

I love to know why bp doesnt vett all the hard money lenders listed on this site? 

I do recommend to use inspection, especially since I am abroad investor.In addition, the inspection report help me to make sure the contractor quote covered all major issues, and I also use the inspector to visit during the rehab to make sure the contractor finished each construction stage.Investing ~$250 in inspection in compare to the money you invest in buying and rehabbing is not major and reduce your risk.Good luck.

At BP, not only can you network with other real estate investors, you can learn from the informative forums posted daily on the site, find properties that are for sale, and take free courses.