And while I do believe that profit is vital to any business venture, I also believe profit without taking care of your humanity isn't worth the profit.

I am excited to start my new venture in REI and would love to connect and meet some people in Westchester NY or near it.

They take jobs in the field of their choice (technology, real estate, retail, etc), learn the business from the inside out, save some startup capital and THEN venture out on their own.The other benefit of this methodology is that if you fail, you're not going to have to flip burgers to pay your rent...you'll still have skills to go back and either try again or rebuild your war-chest for the next venture.

If rather than going for a loan to finance a project, on a larger project, couldn't a developer get joint venture partners that would provide funding in exchange for partial ownership?

.@ Justin Silverio - I'm looking into the wholesale and have a rehab buyer lined up that I can joint venture with if I provide the funding.

My relationship with him has never been very strong, but he respects any man trying to make something of himself, and he loves to see me venturing into something he has devoted to for quite some time.After bringing certain things to light it sounds like I was having a problem swallowing my ego.

I would venture a guess that every seller would welcome that happening ...

With 17 properties, I would venture that they would recommend several different types of policies all with varying degrees of coverage.

A joint venture flip would be interesting to me, or possibly to work as a bird-dog to earn my keep in exchange for some knowledge and experience.

You mentioned another business venture, do you have experience in that industry and know your market?