They forget our brokerage, team, and lead sources put their hands into that check first as well.After August 17th, only the best will continue to prosper in my opinion because it's going to get harder and harder to start from scratch in the business.

I’m starting my journey into investing in real estate.

I figured I start in my own backyard Raleigh,NC, the surrounding areas, and go from there.

If this is a route you plan to go, I might also get a lawyer on board from the start and allow them to either negotiate with the insurance company or file the lawsuit against the agent and brokerage.

Therefore I'm now looking to start investing in RE in the U.S - prefer neighboring states like New York (Buffalo?)

I do not usually avoid this type of confrontation but I would not take on this fight and I have had on-going cases for 3 years (new one started before previous is settled).

Interacting with other like-minded people here at the local REIAs will definitely help you with getting started out.

Of course the bank says "no problem", I start the process etc, then after credit pull and everything state "thing's have changed and you cannot own more than 3 investment properties" so now I'm at a standstill and they want to push me to commercial side, which in this case is requiring them to take my first and have to refi the balance and lose my rate and then tap a HELOC afterwards at commercial terms.

I started investing in real estate in 2009.

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