SB or other businesses will be on a case by case basis so funding is unknown.What a REI does is develop a process, what most businesses do is develop a process AND a product.Now, let's look at the numbers because I think you'll find that the numbers you posted understate the returns of REI as well.So, let's take a pretty generic case study.

If you're really wanting to pursue this house as a flip, I think you really need to study the homes currently for sale, especially the one that is pending.

Congrats, I can only imagine how exciting it is to be on the other end after all your studying and hard work has paid off.

I'm a college student from New York studying business joined this site to learn more about real estate and network with people in my area.

What Account Closed says makes sense from an aspirational standpoint, but the social science studies that have been done show pretty clearly that, statistically, people are happier when they are just a bit wealthier than the people they are surrounded with.

Hello everyone, My name is Crystal, I'm 30 years old, and real estate investing has been a dream of mine for many years now, though I've only been seriously studying up on it for the past year. 

That said, Im very eager  to lean and fine tune my brief but detailed studies and thought that a MENTOR would be the best way to do that...Anyway, I attened my first Great Lakes REIA meeting yesterday in Cleveland and got a ton of great information from the seminar host Jason Rose.

Right now I'm currently studying/researching the most I can before I start become and investor.

I'd encourage you to study more then just one article to make any decisions.

Trying to find the balance between studying more and analysis paralysis.