@Anthony Bibbins "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie and "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill.

It's myself, my brother and best friend and we don't have that much between us but we're looking to be creative and get our first property and grow from there.

With such little capital I figured it is best to house hack until we can grow our capital large enough to do conventional loans.

Cash flow tends to grow over the years anyway.

If you plan to quickly grow the 401k in your own company, you could self-direct it.

Austin is still growing rapidly as are property values.Also, historically values rise, plain and simple.

This model is different from other investment models as it makes extraordinary deals available to ordinary investors.

Last year I started a Property Management company with buildings in Twin Peaks, Redwood City, and Belmont. Everything is going great, and I'm looking to expand to find more Owners. There are a lot of expensive fixed c...

. -1.5% growthPhoenix gained approximately 24,036 people last year, just behind San Antonio on the list of fastest-growing large cities, continuing decades of population growth.Phoenix 2017 - 1,626,078 population. +1.5% growthAlso, while Phoenix has it's share of subpar construction I don't think it's unique to the city and I'm sure Baltimore has it's newer home construction issues.

(At my age I'm not looking at growing a portfolio via leverage.)