I would greatly appreciate it.Thank you for sharing your story.

Talk to long term investors, you will hear the real story with them.  

Read some of the success stories on here and you'll be amazed at what some people were able to achieve in a relatively short period of time.

@Ali Boone - Thank you for your post, it is really inspiring to hear about your experiences managing out of state properties.

Well everyone, just read the last two paragraphs, the story is irrelevant to the question.If you buy a place for 200K and that is determined to be the market value and you find some sucker to pay 250K, you're into predatory dealing waters. 

So let's say I need to put $10,000 in repairs over the next few weeks before El Niño (which scares the crap out of me, and I'm pretty sure will not be pretty for lots of people with older properties in SoCal...but that's a different story).  

What's the story on this home?  

Funding, along with inspiration and innovation, truly is the lifeblood of real estate development.If you want to start flipping real estate and need money, Just any banks aren't the place to go unless you have an equity line of credit.

Great story!

i didn't start anything right now, im still in the army, but i wanna plan how to start my REI journey.i would like to know what you think about this way for starting out, and if someone started this way also i would like to hear his stories, if he wants to share of course.Thanks!