I have never bought new construction but I am pretty sure you can't get 2000 sq ft home for upper $600K in Hayward right now. 

I haven't bought a deal for a while but I have accumulated more funds - I'm planning on moving out of SoCal and FHAing a 4-unit wherever I end up, plus I have the money to buy another property in my East Coast market if I see something I like (I'll be back there next month visiting family, arguing down property taxes for my newest property at a hearing, working on my properties).Hopefully these ideas are inspiring. 

All of the other numbers are small potatoes.I few years ago we bought a property with $500 average rent.

I have bought houses for as little as 1200 that already had a built in tenant.

My background in real estate investing is pretty short; I actually halfway stumbled into being a landlord recently when I rented a house I bought a few years ago for personal use because I moved out of Mississippi for work and have not been back for over a year.

https://www.cpwr.com/sites/default/files/training/...When I was 14 my dad bought a warehouse that had asbestos insulation in the offices and I remember removing wooden creosote bricks with my bare hands and breathing in the foot of dust when we were cleaning the warehouse out.

Don’t be shy of asking for documents and doing your due diligence as the worse case is you don’t and find you bought a bad deal and really wish that you did.  

In practice I always feel like the transaction is forced (either or both asset sold and the asset bought). 

I bought my first house right out of college, and the advice I would give is to purchase a multi-family right away.

I have a home that I bought back in 2001.