I myself have been wanting to get into learning about the stock side of investing but for now, I know that I have more control over the profits on real estate than I do with paper assets so I'm waiting until I have a few properties under my belt before I dive into that.

I am a hands on landlord (not a slum lord) so I want to do something simple, but effective, to let my tenants know I care about their well-being (major value of mine!)

A roofer, foundation guy and HVAC (both furnace and converting from window air to central A/C) all got a profitable job out of it too.

Besides main residences and restaurant/bar/retai­l I've done many investment properties that have been made rentals or sold for profit.

Gary can be a good rental city, but you better have a very strong property manager or you could have major issues with rents not being paid and people tearing up your properties.  

Building a 1500 sq. ft. house would cost $150,000.00  If the developer wants 12%ROI based on ARV he will need $36K in profit, there's also some soft costs, let's call that 12% as well.  

If you're making a 10% profit, your marginal tax rate will determine how much of this is really tax advantaged.  

I could go on with excuses about working full-time and going to school full time, but the bottom line is I didn't make the cut so I switched majors.

We plan to use 4 (there are 4 of us) separate FHA/203k loans to acquire tri/quad-plexes.At the moment, we are campaigning to gain outside investors and cosigners and will hopefully be profitable with a couple units by early 2017.

Watch out for the for profit ones...you'll know who they are once you get there.