We financed the down payment, so with my buyer's agent commission I got back from the seller at closing, not only did we bring $0 to closing, but actually made $5k when we bought the property!

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Recommend you first figure out the property Class you want to invest in, THEN figure out the corresponding location to invest in.If you apply Class A assumptions to a Class B or C purchase, your expectations won’t be met and it may be a financial disaster.If you buy/renovate a Class A property in Class D area, what quality of tenant will you get?

I knew that investing in property was a path to building wealth, but I didn’t fully understand how to leverage it for retirement.

Sounds like property manager, so you would need to research market salary for PMs in your area.

You can definitely have multiple 1031 exchanges in a single year (I am assuming these are on DIFFERENT investment properties). 

By being open to single family homes as well it really increases your choices, and for us, reduced the cost per door of acquiring our properties.  

Buy a property as soon as you can.

The property was actually sold back in April, but he's still giving me updates as if the property hasn't been sold.

Hi All, One of the main reasons that I began my venture in to real estate investing is to accelerate our family's plan to purchase property in Ireland to be closer to friends.

I've only dealt with residential at this point but am looking into self storage and on my search for commercial I stumbled upon a car dealership property where the owner is moving out of state and motivated to sell the property.