With the ultimate goal of financial freedom and holding numerous properties as a full-time investor. 

But if you learn and work hard you will be handsomely rewarded in due time.Beware of those promising you the rose garden:We have training-Consist of sending you to the training prepared by the local board of realtors, which is not bad, but you need someone to break things down for you on a personal level.

      @Don Colagrossi           Don,                I have purchased numerous properties from them with no problems.

Of course this will greatly amplify the risk and reward side in point #1.3) In case everything does go to hell in a year you should make sure whatever you buy isn't a place you aren't counting the days to get the hell out of or stretch yourself way to thin getting into it.  

The potential is there, but still a little rough, and there are numerous foreclosures still, so some neglected properties that are a blight right now.

Even more commonly, I have been hit numerous times with stocks by fraud.  

With all the significant man hours spent on identifying and categorizing almost all the sources of private funding for real estate investments, I can say that finding and choosing the right lender for any particular deal can be a daunting task, but also a rewarding one.If you have any further questions feel free to contact me directly.

that has only 1-2 actual tenants on the property with numerous abandoned homes.

The answer is, are you comfortable with the risk and the reward of doing so?

I am focusing on wholesaling and lease option strategies to start with...and hope to continue to expand my knowledge and experience as I go.Bigger Pockets has come up on numerous google searches for me whenever I had questions, and I found the information here to be quite diverse and extremely helpful.