., one piece of paper in the driveway), though we did have a bad guest that partied into the night and stole some of my furniture (the pulled the plug on the WiFi so noise monitoring was off).

Hello everyone,I'm finally graduating from listening to podcasts and casual internet/Zillow searches to jumping feet-first into real estate investment.

I'm looking to purchase my first official investment property, but I'm running into steep competition against cash buyers. 

-----Just SOLD a Flip Property in April, long-story short my GC got me busted with the City and had to sink another $44k into the project so broke-even.

It's also possible to participate in a 721 exchange where you might transfer the capital into an investment vehicle such as a syndication if you still wanted to participate in the real estate game without the tax hit.

I started investing in real estate pretty early because everyone I ran into kept saying "boy, I wish I would have started younger" so I really took that to heart.

Some suggest investing out of state for better cash flow, but that's not an option for me at this time.Recently, I ran into a realtor who suggested mid-term rentals to construction workers as a more profitable investment model.

Mortgage rates are driven by The 10 Year Treasury so in order for mortgage rates to go down, we need to see “investors” pull money out of the stock market and put in to the 10 Year.

With regards to the interest, where do the Applicable Federal Rates (AFR) come into play?

I want to start investing into section 8 housing, and I have heard a lot when it comes to cost segregation and the effect that it can have on one's taxes throughout the year.