I have never owned a Real Estate.Can I start my carrier as an investor & start making RE deals and do not use my first time home buyer opportunity i.e low interst rate for later ?

@Norman Romero I just sent you a PM, would love to hear more about the opportunity and see if we can work together on this one.  

PM me if you would like to discuss further for opportunities.

While having a criminal record is not a protected characteristic under the Fair Housing Act, criminal history-based restrictions on housing opportunities violate the Act if, without justification, their burden falls more often on renters or other housing market participants of one race or national origin over anotherSection 3"A housing provider violates the Fair Housing Act when the provider’s policy or practice has an unjustified discriminatory effect, even when the provider had no intent to discriminate."

I am a tad late to this conversation but as an experienced investor, I wanted to touch on several comments in this thread, I will do my best to remember them all.Build your team first (of course this comes after educating yourself on the specific strategy you intend to do with books, BP, mentor, RE group meet ups, etc).

I travel a lot for work and haven't gotten the opportunity yet to go to the local REI meetups. 

Many of the big boys shy away from all C class and that creates an opportunity for others to purchase the right C class properties.

A designer (I'm thinking of a fresh grad architect) should be able to work with you more vs a full architect, I like giving opportunities to fresh starters to build their profile and for a cheaper price.

I intend to pursue that one, but thought I should probably talk to at least 3 companies.  

Works great and is free.When you receive a call, it'll ask you to press 1 to answer, so it gives you an idea that the party calling has dialed your Google voice number.A land line is really not that great, since unless you have that forwarded to your mobile phone, you can miss calls.If you wait long to get back to someone, that can very well be a missed opportunity.