I have no background in REI but recently started to study the topic when it was brought up in one of late Saturday night discussions with a group of friends.

I knew the house was "winterized" but did not discover the disassembled supply lines until I was moving in. 

I’ve been studying for the past 4 months about real estate investing and am ready to purchase my first buy and hold owner occupied small multi-fam investment property.

I'm a 21 year old college student studying finance and economics at UMass Amherst and I'm graduating in May.

I have spent months studying the market and talking with local professionals. 

As an aside, I have studied various "rules of thumb" and "real estate investment guidelines" calculations, picked some target thresholds, and plugged this deal in.

Eduard,Become an avid study of the material available on Bigger Pockets.  

Then you relate to your studies and identify which strategy suits you best, and ultimately formulate the plan to go for it.

Hi, I'm passionate about business and rei wholesalesI've been studying all things real estate investing especially non conventional financing like no money down, hard lenders, creative financing.

There are no secrets in real estate... there is greater knowledge  some have it some don't then there is luck and market timing which can be seen as luck or really smart investing or a combination.buying a great value and refinancing out money is hardly earth shattering.. or new or some secret concept.On the flip side there is such a thing as IP and certain knowledge you gain that can give you an edgefor me when I was buying court house steps I would get approached all the time when people saw me buy 3 props in 1 hour for a million bucks.... they want to start asking questions of course.. and Of course I just politely tell them I learned the foreclosure game over many years and its all public knowledge and I suggest they go study it.