The corporate life is becoming very monontonous and way to political these days so I am taking the plunge to learn a bit more about REI to hopefully someday (soon) make a leap and fulfill a dream.My experience is limited to a few books, some great reads here on the BP forums, growing up in a DIY family (so I am pretty confident in basic carpentry), and priding myself with common sense.

We would love to grow our own real estate investing company that we could use as our main source of income once my husband finishes his active duty military service.

Also wondering why you are choosing to hold that much cash vs. paying off your consumer debt?

We have a few rentals out in the valley and love the amount of opportunities available in such a fast growing area.Welcome again to the BP site and hopefully you'll connect with us at one of the REI meetings.

Our hope is that we can grow this group into one that will help us all meet our real estate goals for 2014 and beyond.

After 3 years we purchased our current home because we had children and our family was growing so a 2 bedroom mobile was not going to work.

I knew the home was in a good neighborhood, growing city, recognized school district.

Figure out how to make adjustments so the job doesn't consume you.

Our experience was the extra cost of the coin-op machines, the utilities consumed and the damage/abuse they received pretty much consumed any revenue generated.

We are up to 44 units right now but know that in order to grow at the rate that we want to, we are going to accept investors as a part of our apartment equation.We already have investors for our houses so this feels like a natural progression.