For us, 2016 thus far has been a year of concentrated effort in the area of personal finance and investing, and I feel like we are learning so much every day as we take real positive steps for the future of our family's finances.Real estate investing has really captured my imagination in the past several months, and I want to become a more involved member of the BP community because I believe that will be a catalyst to invest myself even more and take steps to get skin in the game.

This is why we have concentrated on buy and hold in the mid-west.

I would concentrate on the four-plex in hand and make sure the numbers make sense as well as the location. 

I am working on my strategy to get out of the rat race in the next 5 years and then concentrate on real estate and other businesses (including a B&B on the beach in Jamaica)My short and long term goals are below. 5 year goalTo make $5,000 per month passive income from real estate by 2020 to enable my retirement from the UN at 55.

Although #20 sounds like a great number, I've noticed on this forum that most investors seem to concentrate on having the most properties and units possible. 

I was trying to concentrate in condos, since I can buy them cash and around my target price of $30k.

Hi Andrew, I think debt tolerance depends largely on the individual: I am still building a portfolio, so I have a higher debt tolerance than someone who is ready to stop building and concentrate instead on cash flow. 

Since servicing troubled loans is such an intensive and demanding business, companies that specialize in and concentrate their operations around servicing these types of loans are often more efficient at the process.

I spent about the last five years concentrating on flips but I am now back concentrating on rentals. 

I would try to concentrate and learn one type of investing.