Hi all,Have a great opportunity in my hometown to get into a 5 unit mixed use property.

If you have some time you could also create a spreadsheet and take everything that has been sold in your submarket on Loopnet (for like properties), and take the average, and then throw that into the mix. 

I'm new to real estate investing and I plan on using lease options to buy/sell my properties. I plan on working with a mortgage broker to help pre-qualify my tenant buyers on a 2 year term. There are a lot of military...

I'm new to real estate investing and I plan on using lease options to buy/sell my properties. I plan on working with a mortgage broker to help pre-qualify my tenant buyers on a 2 year term. There are a lot of military...

While a lot of people on this thread have provided several great suggestions, I would hesitate to add something to the mix because advice such as "investing in index funds periodically overtime" may be a good idea, or it may not be, but in a vacuum it's hard to say. 

Hello Bigger Pockets!I am a real estate agent who also works a full-time day job. Looking for my next investment property, I found something very intriguing. By intriguing, I mean a complicated puzzle filled with pote...

Family, money, and real estate don't mix at the beginner level and someone or everyone is going to end up upset.

having a lender in the mix would complicate the scheme as presumably title would discover that the bogus warranty or quitclaim deed was not recorded concurrently with a reconveyance from the "seller's" lender. 

@Mat O'Grady - Great advice on the taxes, I hadnt thought about that piece@Michael Doherty  Financing would be a mix of my own money, private money and hard money lender. 

You can even mix-up the offer with some amount of cash upfront if they do need a portion of cash for some purpose.