Hey Titus, totally can relate with you being from an expensive real estate market - I moved to Columbus a few years ago (from Portland, Oregon which was super expensive) to become a full time real estate investor, and ever since, I've completed quite a lot of BRRRRs, flips, and own a successful rental portfolio here in Columbus Ohio.

id like to build connections with fellow investors and investor friendly real estate agents.

I believe there is a STR real estate regular meetup in the Cape Cod are, but I'll need to ask about where and when it typical is. 

Just joined these forums so hopefully this is in the right thread.I work freelence and W2 work and I want to invest in real estate next year.

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this is a real estate site.. and that is a real estate term in Aussie land..

C-Corps usually aren't a preferred structure for real estate.I know that with a self directed IRA all of the income has to come back to the IRA - read another way - you can't take the profits from your investments and access them today (so no passive income that you can utilize in the near term).  

Hey everyone,I'm new to real-estate so sorry for the likely dumb questions.

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I am trying to be more active and meet like kind real estate minded people.