Choose a focus, study it, learn from other investors, read books, visit different markets when you travel, and take action. 

Before exploring this concept with a qualified legal and tax professional, I wonder if any of the community has anecdotal experience around taking a distribution from a 401K and balancing the earned income taxes with paper losses from doing a cost segregation study. 

Landlords, BIG and small...Here's a question for you.How many minutes/hours do you spend every month on average doing all of the following: (per property)1. Calling your Operating team - Property Manager, leasing agen...

If you are trying to legalize it long-term you would have to prove it was used in that manner for a specified number of years.

My name is Nate and I am a Sophmore in college (20 years old) and I am studying business.

In addition, he acknowledged I'd learn useful information through the required courses, but I would only be using 10% of the content, and studying every single chapter verbatim would be an inefficient use of my time.

I am a college student studying Construction Management and thinking about getting a minor in real estate.

Thanks to you1st thing I'd do is study all of Cleveland's neighborhoods as they very widely in risk and price.

Study your intended market so you can learn to recognize real deals as they come around. 

As for the shop, you’ll definitely need to have a phase 1 environmental study done as part of your due diligence.