Since my sales profession provides me with quite a bit of windshield time, the BP podcasts have been a great way to begin educating myself on the business – turning my car into a “Library on wheels”.I’ve begun reading the beginner material on BP as well as some of the book recommendations I’ve picked up from the podcasts.

Since my sales profession provides me with quite a bit of windshield time, the BP podcasts have been a great way to begin educating myself on the business – turning my car into a “Library on wheels”.I’ve begun reading the beginner material on BP as well as some of the book recommendations I’ve picked up from the podcasts.

Every once in awhile, I will though just to help reset some of my finances and cover some of the out of pocket costs I've had paying the hard money fees and closing costs on my deals.At the end of the day though, if you can find a deal where the purchase and rehab comes in at 70% or better of the ARV, you can essentially pick yourself up a house for about 4k to 5k out of pocket (assuming a typical bread and butter 100k loan).  

Hopefully my guys (TB Bucs) pick up Mariota in the 1st Round, he did a lot of good work for the Ducks.

Do your home in all of the neighborhoods before picking one or two. 

Welcome to the site, you definitely picked the right resource for your education.

Thoughts on finding an investor or two to pick up ten properties or so in the next year?

I'll be picking them up this week. 

There are so many niche areas of real estate investing that the most important is to pick yours and be good at it.  

If so, pick which unit you plan to occupy (usually the most tired) and make it a condition of sale that it be delivered vacant - the vendor can give notice to the tenant and they should be moved out prior to Close.If there are no provisions for owner occupant and the tenants are on annual or term leases, you will have to look at the terms of the lease w/r to notice.