About 60 people attend on average and there are no sales pitches allowed, just information and networking.Another great one is ran by Propelio who do sell an investor site and have vendors show up but are mainly a networking hot bed.

Friend purchased this home site unseen in 2015 for 34,500 for her daughter to have a home while going to school.

I am relatively new to this forum and REI; i have read a lot of blogs on this site, and are very informative.

House hacking may be your best bet to build equity, and maybe refi to pull funds or continue to save and put yourself in the best position a year or so from now to make the move to strictly investment props!!

Now with regards to a lender...your best bet is going to be a local community bank and/or credit union.

I'm still familiarizing myself with the site.

I think this is probably the best bet@George Skidis thanks, I will look into Legalshield 

Great that you joined the site!

Hello everyone - I recently got interested in real estate investing, and eventually found my way to this site, so I figured I should start at the beginning and say hello!

4.6% is a great rate 9n a commercial property so I'm not sure I would mess with that unless you could get a long term, fixed rate loan.Cost of capital will be huge I bet.