Hello everyone,I'm 21 years old and have been serving on active duty as a US Marine for the past 3 years and plan on attending college at Arizona State to begin the pursuit of my MBA in 2 years immediately after I finish my enlistment, but my "big time" goal in life is to become a multifamily real estate investor and create my own chain of luxury apartment complexes all over the United States and potentially all around the world, and from there become a venture capitalist and invest in small tech startups that have huge potential, but just not enough funds to get it started.I'm still currently educating myself on the subject of real estate investing and real estate in general (reading books, listening to podcasts, studying markets in different areas, etc) and I look forward to networking and learning from all of you here and potentially even shadow/work with some of you sometime in the near future!

. $250 Chain of Title2. $50 CPL3. $40 Electronic Document4. $15 Electronic Filing5. $75 Predatory Lending6. $1,690 Lender's Insurance7. $1,275 Settlement Fee8. $3 State Policy Fee9. $540 Title Endorsement10. $125 Title Update Fee11 $65 Wire Transfer FeeTotal $4,128

D4D is a great way to start: https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/05/0...When you mail your first listing with a first class postcard, skiptrace the bounced addresses and those are gold and stop mailing the dead addresses and mail the owner after you find them.

A good agent is worth their weight in gold and I personally wouldn't jeopardize a good relationship over a deal or two. 

Theodora Auwae My three rules of investing1) evaluate income and expenses for positive cashflow2) leverage with favorable debt terms3) hard asset*gold is a hard asset but does not produce (1) cashflow or (2) leveragable...

Going to buy a gold brick and shove it under your mattress?

Save up your money another downturn is coming.Automation and the internet are gonna kill a lot of jobs and entire industries, A lot of people are entirely dependent upon their stock market 401K or pensions (Some of the funds will never be able to pay up) for their income, the country is $20 Trillion in debt and no one can agree on anything, the healthcare system is in a state of complete debacle, we have recently seen 3 major disasters hit our soil (Houston, Florida and Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico was already broke and now they need more money because they are even more broke than they were before) - Our government and most of it's people are still operating on an economic system which was designed 90 years ago (3 generations) which will no longer function as we go forward -  Interest rates have to go up eventually which means more expensive money, Let's not forget the tax thing (We had a 94% income tax rate and they confiscated gold during the great depression)  etc, etc, fill in the blankNow I don't want to be a Negative Nancy or a Debbie Downer but someone has to survive the next downturn to pick up the pieces.

If what you think is true, paying off relatives won't help.....you still don't have a proper chain of title.

@Adam Adams We were both in Marc Gold's conference.

Find a good RETAIL leasing broker to represent you, who has the retailer contacts and has experience negotiating chain store deals.