We have gotten our finances in line and currently are looking more in detail to purchase our first real estate property.

I'm impressed lot of us do the same strategy lol, I almost purchased another 5/2 two months ago in hayward but got outbid again LOL

I've purchased a few homes to househack.

Let me know if you can, thanks State Auto was purchased by Liberty Mutual several years back. 

I'm very close to purchasing my first Memphis property.  

A few lenders may also require the property to be furnished when you purchase the property. 

I am an investor myself and purchased my rentals here, all hitting the 1% rule.

I think if you set up a brokerage account with the same bank that your business checking account for the LLC is at, you can simply move the money from the checking account into the brokerage account and then purchase something. like USFR, which pays 5.4% in T bills with zero risk of loss or BKN which pays 5.7% in tax free Municipal bonds if able to tolerate some risk (this gives me a >9% tax effective rate on my cash).

@Ricardo Serrano this copy & paste info may help...Recommend you first figure out the property Class you want to invest in, THEN figure out the corresponding location to invest in.If you apply Class A assumptions to a Class B or C purchase, your expectations won’t be met and it may be a financial disaster.So, when investing in areas they don’t really know, investors should research the different property Class submarkets.

My name is Al and I’m a newbie investor looking to learn as much as possible so that I can purchase my first rental.