I don't doubt my ability, but I am a person who needs time to become properly calibrated to environments of varying difficulty.

Following.After a recent chartered fishing excursion this idea struck me as well. 

flipping to raise funds" is going to be very, very, very difficult for a new investor in the current market environment. 

Imagine a kid stepping on a rusty nail in todays environment....Be honest and up front about everything.

Now, I've also had an inkling and desire to move and switch my environments for a couple of years now.

Hi BP community,I'd like to tap my home equity to invest in a small MF and assume a home equity loan would be better than a HELOC given the rising rate environment.

In my opinion, you want to be ready for multiple different scenarios buying in this environment.

I would suggest starting there since it seems to be the big fish around here! 

If in house employees are valued and given a great working environment so that retention is high, I'd like to believe long term training would be well worth the investment.It's hilarious how a lot of my peers want to live in big cities with nice things yet they don't put in the work to be able to afford it and then complain about not having enough money to travel/live their lifestyle dream!

We chartered a fishing excursion and all I saw was a huge number of boats paying slip rent.