🙋🏾♀️I have been thinking a lot about finding an investment mentor to talk some decisions through with but for the fun of it I decided to pick the collective brains of this massive community... ok here goes:So I have been thinking a lot about the strength of the current real estate market and whether it's time to sell my properties and take the proceeds to make some larger investments and go to the next level so to speak. 

Nonetheless, the strategies that I am picking up on finding and MAKING deals thanks to all of you guys is guiding me along the way nicely. 

Pros and cons to each - do your research before you pick one over the other.  

I’ll have to pick up BP’s book on buying rentals.

Seems people are picking up properties of any kind:) or I could be stupid and overestimating the market.

I would sell the exchange property for $420K and buy the empty lot through the exchange for $200K and take out a building loan for $220K.If I own the property first I can make the first two months of improvements (site prep, utilities, permits, and foundation) before I sell it to myself through the exchange and make sure it is done by the end of the 180 day clock. 

At any given time when families search my area, if mine is available It’s one of a few to pick from.

Pick different potentials in the same investment market...run the numbers before and have a list of what you need to know or look at, then run the numbers after...depending on the property and intent use one of the calculators on this site for every one...work it as and then use the tool to calculate what it would need to be  --  if they are the same then it might be the right deal.Once you have this then you can move to other surrounding markets easier...just make sure you adjust your assumptions to align with that market.One final note and this depends on your area, here in FL you have to account for what your property taxes "will be" not what they are. 

Hello Everybody!I'm a new investor and one of the properties that I am looking at is a tri-plex. The current owner pays for the water and lawn care. My question is: can those costs be passed on to the tenants and if s...

Pick a solid B-Class suburban area.