Hi BiggerPockets Family,I’m trying to start my real estate investment journey through the purchase of my primary residence, with the intention of selling it in less than 5 years.

Agent should do most of the searching but not all, as you may have interest on something that does not fully match the criteria you gave your agent.hope this helps understand how “professional” agents work!

I have 2 faithful tenants in it and Arkansas is not really any action there to use for travel professionals.

Ever since I came here at the beginning of 2023, it has been a crazy journey learning the market and helping others sell or buy properties.

In my first few weeks I've helped deals happen and even connected some in the free community to who they needed to begin their real eestate journey.

You've landed in the perfect spot to kickstart your networking and learning journey.

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It had water damage and mold but professionally restored.

You can do it.You can read about this journey and our specific case study in the book - Lifetime Tax-Free Wealth: A Real Estate Investors Guide to The 1031 Exchange.A couple of suggestions - 1.

Accountants are in such demand, that the best are not even accepting clients half the time.The other problem I see often with accountants on here is that they specialize in larger investors, and have really high prices when you as a smaller investor do not need all the bells and whistles.Another thing I see is folks thinking they need to have a tax professional in their state.