Know your market, physically and financially.If I see a for sale sign in a yard and the owner is mowing his yard, with my skills I'll be talking to the guy and most likely I can lead him into talking about the house, usually they show it to me.

Others are much more skilled in this area than I am.  

(Organizations, groups)

Key to getting started is not biting off more than you can chew, don't BS yourself, segregate duties, put people in that can do what you can't, learn to manage, not drive nails, that's a skill.

I don't like how RealtyMogul has organized their offerings.  

Also, you can do your own loan with my organization, and avoid the costs and also have access to the money and property deals.Investing in real estate (and I don't want to hear about the "lucky" ones over the past 5 years where a dog with a note in his mouth could make money by buying at $250k and then selling for $500k----this is luck and stupidity from buyer's in the market place not "slowing it down" and bidding too much----remember $800 gold stocks?

Great keyboarding skills and knowledge of all the popular software programs.

Just wanted to introduce myself to this great forum...Name is Jim, and I have been a remodeler for over 30 years and dabbled a bit in buying and selling, but now I am going to take the plunge and do some serious REI.I plan to use my skills to do fixers, or small homes to add on to to target that all-important 3/2 range of houses (most of the older fixers in my area tend to be 2 Bedroom and 1 bath).

I know appraisal skills can certainly help and anyone can (probably should) take the classes for that.

May just be me, and fact I am in #1 lawsuite state, but for me when it comes to the LLC vs Corp. questions and twists, I always look #1 at liability, and then at taxation savings.I had a large company, organized as a c-corp, and yes it was a hassle, and yes taxes where hell on the surface, although i hired a good CPA who I could barely understand his strategies, I just followed them and saved.