Be sure to read through The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing to help you get started.Finally -be sure to setup some keyword alerts - especially for "Santa Rosa" so you can jump into local conversations.See you around the forums!

Be sure to read through The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing to help you get started.You may want to setup some keyword alerts - especially for "Lake Panasoffkee" so you can jump into local conversations.See you around the forums!

(Think of that line from Fight Club, "On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.")

Be sure to check out the Ultimate Beginners Guide as well as my 10 Rules of Successful Real Estate Investing.

@John @Paul I started reading the ultimate beginners guide, also order J Scott books "The book on flipping houses" and "The book on estimating rehab costs"

Ultimately, it's got to be something you're comfortable with.

I've been out of the service for just shy of a year now, and have learned to survive on the minimal, and by minimal I mean even less than what most would consider the bear essentials.

If you haven't yet, be sure to check out the The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing and The BiggerPockets Podcast.

Great conversation and great feedback from Will (Will great finally meeting you at the I survived event a few weeks ago BTW)I am not by any means a seller finance expert, so just want to put that out there :-) Like Will mentions there are many other benefits to seller finance than just price so it is important to be able to help him understand those benefits for the deal to make sense.Having that been said for us personally the way we operate is we only bring up seller financing as an alternative if we can't meet on price and they want more than what we are willing to pay.

The entire budget may be prepared by the PM, but ultimately its the HOA board that approves the final operating budget for the HOA.