@Dawn Anastasi,I live in California and am a real estate agent as of one year now and still learning the tricks or the trade.

I was now looking for an entry level position, my thought was if I was hoping to trade my time to learn why not actually get paid for my time, after all that's what most of us do 9-5, trade our time for money.

I have done some light construction (alarm installation, conduit, etc.) and am a good handyman or jack of all trades if you will. 

I'd expect the fees to be based on portfolio performance compared to the market, not a fee based on total assets managed and certainly not a commission per trade.

If you think you can rent to a tenant as soon as his current agreement is up, do not extend,  Even if you extended him at market rate you will likely see you will lose in the trade off.    

If you are wholesaling the house, this is what your buyer would be willing to pay for the house if it needed absolutely no work whatsoever.  

We currently own our home and a triplex in CA, and some fourplexes in other states.  I recently saw a 12 unit apartment building get listed in another state for sale for about the same amount our CA triplex is worth (...

But you CAN'T do activity that rises to the level of a "trade or business".

Hi guys,I'm a new member of BP.. have been investing for the past 4 years..but just recently discovered BP... my goal is to get to $10k per month cashflow... so my wife can completely quit her job if she chooses to...I'm currently about 30% there.anyways.. here's my intro as well as a long question...sorry for the long post.. here goes...I'm a programmer by trade but did ok in the past 10 years with online marketing...ie managing adwords for small businesses... anyways and I'm currently using what I've made in those 10 years as capital for real estate investments.I do have a question..

She told us to go to our loan officer, which makes sense but I'm not sure how I feel about that lack of insight and trying to avoid talking about it whatsoever. * Get your credit in order first.