My wife and I bought an apartment building just outside of Houston with a hard money loan in early April.  

Making money in real estate investing is really hard if you don't know what your doing.

Thank you both : )Matt - For a foreigner it is very hard to choose an area, especially in a country that New York alone is bigger than my own country LOLIf for example I want to choose an area in my country, it will still be easier even if I'm not familiar with real estate and even if I didn't visit it all (I didn't see most of my country :) ), because I know the language, the people, the rules (!!)

Does anyone have a recommendation for a local hard money lender or bank that is willing to work with a new investor?

Are there any investors on here that would be interested in getting to know me and have a unit available that they are willing to fill with a very hard working, education thirsty, new investor?

We are almost ready to move onto our next investment either by selling thi house and doing the live in flip again, or by finding enough money (hard) to buy a rental and get that ball rolling.

This might include things like intent at the time of purchase, time held, whether a property was marketed for sale, frequency of such transactions, whether you are personally flipping houses separate from the plan, etc.If your IRA is flipping properties on a regular basis, then you will surely want to speak with your licensed tax advisor to be sure you understand the ramifications of UBIT taxation, and whether this tax on the gains from flipping will still leave your IRA with better returns than other options, or if you might need to look at different strategies for the IRA such as long term rentals or hard money lending.

I am sure it wouldn't prove very difficult to find investors that were hit hard in 2008, but kept their units rented and are glad they didn't file now in 2016.

Reality, it will be a hard sell to have tenants in a C- area paying the existing rent with gas bills on top of that, they aren't that stupid, you'll need to reduce rents to reflect utilities to the competition of comparable rentals.

That price included pumping, chemically treating, and ultimately collapsing the septic tank, directional boring 3/4 of the way around the house (.39 acre lot), two cleanouts installed, and he even removed a damaged cast iron stack pipe which had cracked in my foundation and updated it to PVC at no charge.I gave the overpriced $4,000 water equipment to a friend who had suffered from hard water and haven't had an issue with my new city water/sewer setup yet.Contact me if you'd like to chat further.