I checked my 401k online and I have over 4k but I can only withdraw around half and only for hardship purposes.

As a web professional, who spends a lot of time online, I've never seen a community of users so willing to offer assistance and information.

The K1 has all of the profit listed on line 1 as ordinary business income and does not seem to reflect long term cap gain tax benefits. 

It's a great free online real estate resource. 

You are taking steps in the right direction by becoming part of this online community.To your success!

My partner and I have recently bid on a home on  homesearch.com, We were the Highest bidder (@ 138,000) but the reserve was not met. I had previously bid on this house twice on the auction and saw it had met the reser...

However I know some bougtique fellows that are not realtors will use their sourcing ability and their rehab ability and bring you a deal at cost with a pretty small mark up  usually less than a sales commish to an outside agency.. so there is that program as well.. need cash for that.. in the old days I used to do the Hardmoney loan to help you buy and rehab but most of us lenders won't do that for newbie or out of state investors anymore risk are to high.But get on line check out all the different companies there are 100's  and there are probably 30 plus viable markets ...

If you're studying for your real estate test, there's some great online schools.

The closest I've come to any of this is read some books and see other information online about this profession.

Or online news papers?