Hi Christian,YOU are awesome.Thank you--you are right on target with so many items above.I have a 16' class a buffer on both boundaries and have permission to reduce that another 25%.A major med institution is interested in my parcel BUT they require 6/1000 sf parking. ( Why wasn't Elon Musk born 20 years earlier-- then we wouldn't have these wasted paved parking requirements.)Anyway, the buyer prospect needs min 15,000 sqft... but cant get the 90+ surface parking #s.HATE TRIANGLES.Please, Let me know if you have ANY TIME tomorrow ???

I was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada, but went to college in West Virginia.I hope to purchase my first rental property (SFH or small multifamily) in early 2017 when I become a little more familiar with the area.  

Don't fall into the trap of thinking you can lower expenses and raise rents with self managing to make the numbers look appealing to justify buying at a certain price.Of course you want to plan on increasing yield but if doesn't turn out like you want it should cash flow from day one.Those upsides to the property should be the icing on top of the cake and not the cake.  

So a lot of the rich ppl who were too late to leave are trapped.

Originally born in Allentown, PA, I now invest in the same community I grew up in.

.), but I was married so, that didn't work.I started buying tapes (remember tapes, they'd get hung up in your tape player and wouldn't work anymore) on real estate investing, I took many seminars from speakers from a-far, digested dozens of books on investing and experimented creating buying offers using creative techniques (had to, had no money).I became an agent (that wasn't fun, but I did well) selling residential properties (that job diverted my energy from investing to driving around potential buyers), and earning almost nothing for my efforts.What I did not have when I started was a computer, no email no real estate chat rooms, no pagers, cell phones and no internet, Bigger Pockets wasn't born yet.I use to have to go to the court house and assessment office in person if I wanted to know who owned what, I use to run foreclosures after getting the information from the legal pending filing.I remember the first cell phone I purchased, it was call a 'bag phone' it was as big as a shoe box.

I am still looking for private equity investors but nothing that cannot be worked through.Any other thoughts on how to keep myself from falling into their trap?

I was born in Belize City and Did carnival in Brazil for my 25th birthday.

Jamie Doman I was born and raised in Memphis and I'm just getting started in Real Estate.

be born to rich parents and start about 38 years sooner.