Generated over $5,000 in value.More to come.Skills: Appraising: 0/10Accounting: 4/10Cost Estimating: 4/10Property Management: 3/10Designing: 8/10Project Management: 7/10Social: 7/10Experiences: Wholesale: 0/10Fix n Flip: 0/10Buy n Hold: 3/10 (some exposure from father)Single Family Home: 7/10Secondary Dwelling: 7/10Small Multifamily: 0/10Apartment Unit: 0/10Apartment Building: 0/10Commercial: 2/10 (some exposure from work)I hope to:- improve wholsaling skills and Fix n Hold.- learn how to best release potential value from raw land and single family homes via renovation, new construction and more- discover similarities between american market and my local market in hope of applying some of the multifamily cashflowing techniques learned from BP (market value in my local area is around $700,000 for single family home which is too high to cashflow as is.)- save up enough for the downpayment of a cashflowing property.- explore international loan options to help bring quality loan packages to local home buyersand morePlease come say Hi, especially if you live in the Sydney area.

Investors pool resources and skills to buy large-scale properties and split the profits.House Flipping: Flipping house is one of the most popular strategies to get started in real estate.

I've been at this a long time and I know that most serious investors are looking for one of two things:1) Expertise, ability, skills, leads, properties, things like that.2) Money, financing, loans, things like thatIf you can't offer one of those, offer the other.

There are always ways to make money when things are going great as well as other strategies to implement when the market is not so great.As for measuring, real estate is both an art and science.

I've been following this thread, and others, and wonder - amidst all those newbies who are looking for that get rich quick golden egg, there's some who choose to enter this Real Estate arena as a wholesaler without the full blinders, knowing it's a hard road (maybe not just how hard, granted, but knowing it's not an easy walk) and you need to get some contacts and teaching and mentors - how do the serious folk choosing wholesaling, wanting to use their time and skills to assist investors, how do they *not* get dismissed outright as we're all smushed into the same grouping just by using the word "wholesaling"?  

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I knew that I can't rely too much on one thing so here I am, continuing on with college, working to gain experience for my High-Income Skills and starting the plan for my first Rental Property Investing business. 

It requires more specialized knowledge and skills than other methods of real estate investing.

The art of wholesaling is to get the properties under contract at a price that is attractive to investors.

And since you are a contractor you can take advantage of your skills most in your home market .Sounds like you need to start driving for dollars, engaging some wholesalers, networking, etc. in your market.