I have gone through numerous marketing paths and can provide guidance.

How many hours have I spent at spaghetti dinners, fund raisers, figuring out invitation designs?

Because of many of the tax advantages, using this type of funding can save $1000, even $100,000 in taxes making it that much easier to build up a retirement nest egg.All of the retirement vehicles like IRAs, Roth IRAs, 401(k)s, Coverdale Education Savings Accounts, Health Savings Accounts and maybe a few others can be set up with special qualified custodians and then be used to invest directly in whatever type of real estate investment the investor might want to do.This is a whole month long course in itself, so be sure to get educated about Retirement Funds and many of the custodians have numerous articles, vidoes and webinars on the subject to get you educated.Insurance Plans: There are life insurance plans that combine a term life insurance policy with a savings plan.

My parents built a home and invited my sister and I to move out here with our kids and build homes. 

@Marcus JohnsonI've challenged and won numerous changes to my valuations on my multi family properties in MPLS. 

Been involved in Construction in numerous aspects in the past 15 years and have always had a itch for REI.

Thanks for the invite.

Now I don’t mind having a partner but my question is this- I have heard Brandon Turner saying numerous times that banks will typically stop giving out loans after 5-10 properties.

Is looking for numerous single family homes in different locations better than syndicating a multi family property for a first deal? 

We’ve never met, owner invited me in and we chatted for about 15 minutes about all sorts of stuff, and briefly touched in the real estate.