Having a mentor will help you when looking for advice on deals and helping you choose investments that are smart, but It can't be one way.

My original plan involved saving up 20 to 30k as I continue to learn and try to see if I can intern or something in that manner with a real estate agent or investor. I am 18 and I have hydrocephalus. I just recently h...

If you budget for your wholesaler's (or other deal finder) estimate in that case, you'll have to choose between lowering your standards, or going over your budget that you planned.

I am now in the process of applying for my license and choosing a broker.

I like giving options for my tenant to choose from.

The same principle will apply anywhere, but with less appreciation in, say, the Midwest, you'll be losing out on some of the sweet CA equity growth.I gotta say, choosing where to live is more than just an investment decision.

Hi Jeremiah,Here are my answers to your questions:I don't necessarily prefer Section 8, but I am not against it either.I am in Eastern NC, from Greenville to Morehead City and everything in between.My plan is to hold for a long time, unless I am 1031 my lower cash flow into a multifamily.I choose to buy local to me, but some people buy across the country.I prefer to buy without a renter in place, but I have offers out right now that both have renters in place for the next 6 months. 

The only monthly bill my LLC doesn't pay for on my house is my monthly term installments for principal/interest/taxes.Since my house is held personally, if I choose to have the LLC burden the payment to the bank, I'd have to declare that as "rental income".

His advice all boils down either to treating your employees and contractors like absolute garbage in the hopes that they give you a cheap price, or repeating really asinine, useless stuff like "when you have to choose between a high price and a low price for the same work, you choose the low price!" 

In our S-corp, the income goes into the S-Corp which we choose to make outsize retirement contributions (from my understanding that's OK as long as all employees get the same deal) instead of taking it as W-2 income from the S-corp.