Once you have built enough experience with your own money, you can start leveraging other people's money.

There are a bunch of newbies paying for all these education programs that promise you'll get rich with no money and no knowledge of real estate. 

I'vee been studying the market for a while now and few opportunities have presented themselves as viable for an owner occupy investment while also leveraging the VA loan's 0% down. 

Try buying stocks on leverage and having someone else pay the loan off.  

Also, with interest rates going up are you concerned at all with all of that leverage?

Because of the large amount of educational institutions and white-collar professions available in Boston, compounded with a mostly reliable MBTA system, you'll see these attractive tenants having no problem living in areas that will previous C-areas provided that their units are in good shape.

Just started educating myself with RE investing.

I want to be able to leverage so I can repeat the process.

Highly leveraged players will get knocked out first, large players with deep pockets will weather the storm and will start to acquire the excess supply.I had a very interesting conversation with a guy who's job it is to crunche numbers for REITs and pension funds - they will go all across the country for a solid 3% ROI.

I am not an expert on this by any means.. there is a fellow in Indy his name escapes me  I think its Ken Myer or something like that.. who is big in this business and he might even have a educational arm to his business.. its probably worth the money to pay to have up front training before you step into this big of investment.I personally see this as buying a on going business not really the rental business.my experience with my unit .. is it was only 44 units.. but really nice ones it was not big enough for on site management.. so if I did this again It would have to be big enough to have on site management to show the units and keep people from sleeping in them and hauling all sorts of garbage into them like a hoarder.Don't do as I say.. but when people didn't pay and went dark ..