Get to know important things such as money flow guesses, profit rate, money back on money put in, likely rise in value, empty property rate, upkeep costs, and property taxes.

@Bruce Lynn we are planning to put down 30%.

But this phenomenon will put a lot of pressure on the recent investors regardless.

Buy a commercial mixed-use property downtown on Main Street with room to put my business on one side.

@Kingston YiMy recommendation is to put it at a custodian.

We renovated property doing all the work ourselves so I'm not sure if we can factor in our labor into the money we put into the property, not just materials?

Tenants will put items from the oven directly on the counter top. 

Of course you could put it a guaranteed bank cd and make over $300k so make sure the juice is worth the squeeze.

I am currently getting things lined up to purchase the Real Estate Salesperson License course for Illinois, am reading books on sales, listening to podcasts, putting together a business plan, looking up Investor Meetup groups, researching brokerages, and just about to finish the Bigger Pockets book on "How to Invest in Real Estate. 

We are only putting 5% down with conventional.And what are some ways we can continue to build our portfolio in RE?