A week after reading rich dad poor dad I happened to meet a lady in our neighborhood that was getting ready to loose her house for back taxes.

Hi Biggerpockets Team,I hate writing, hearing or reading about anything like this subject but my Licensed contractor abandoned my project.This guy was a referral from a co worker (her husband) and my due diligence showed nothing negative.He has stopped all communications with me and I am starting to unravel everything and get moving to finalize my project as an owner builder and I am finding that he did not do a lot of things. 

Hi Biggerpockets Team,I hate writing, hearing or reading about anything like this subject but my Licensed contractor abandoned my project.This guy was a referral from a co worker (her husband) and my due diligence showed nothing negative.He has stopped all communications with me and I am starting to unravel everything and get moving to finalize my project as an owner builder and I am finding that he did not do a lot of things. 

The one thing I will say definitively is make sure you find a GP who communicates well.

Hi George,Get the best paying job(s) that you can.Work 2 jobs at the same time.Save as much of your money as you can (all if you can).Save up $30,0000 CASH money.Read Rich Dad Poor Dad as your first book.Read the (Education) and (Bookstore) resources (Links) and blogs in this forum.Good Luck!

At that point, the tenant, who had ignored previous communication, responded that Grandma is just "visiting" (NOT what she told her caseworker), and that she DOES have a bed in a specific nursing home, that they were just "trying it out", to see if they could manage keeping her with them, and that if they could, THEN they were going to ask if they could have her move in with them, and that meanwhile, one of the bedrooms in the house would be dedicated to her exclusive use when she visits, which means that they are packing 7 children into two bedrooms, with the fourth bedroom set up with a walker, oxygen, all Grandma's needs for when she "visits" but there's not much I can do about them stuffing 7 kids into 2 bedrooms, while keeping a guest bedroom. 

I recommend you get started by everyone in the group purchasing the book "Rich Dad Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki.

Their purpose is to relieve the day to day management from you but it is still your property to oversee and you need to communicate with your PM.

& Rich. 

After listening to well over 100 BiggerPockets podcasts, reading Rich Dad Poor Dad multiple times, and scrolling the forums for hours, I decided now was a good time to introduce myself.I will be closing on my first deal April 6th (already under contract and non-contingent), which is a 17 unit apartment portfolio in East LA for $1.4M.My goals for the future are to continually educate myself on all aspects of real estate, and start to build my own SFR / Multifamily portfolio.