I’m open to brokerage inquiries and excited to contribute my skills to the local market.What I'm Looking For:I'm actively seeking "live and flip" opportunities to kickstart my real estate portfolio in Arizona.

Quote from @Melanie Baldridge: Why I like investing in real estate more than 401(k)s.Both offer tax deferrals, but here's the difference:If you're making pre-tax contributions to your 401(k), then withdrawals = ordinary income tax.With real estate gains, you're paying capital gains tax (which is typically lower).Plus, RE investors get:1.

Pool your resources (your $100k with what they can contribute).

So if you are doing an addition, you are only contributing to the structure portion of value, not the land value.

I’m here to connect with like-minded individuals, gain insights from others, and contribute value wherever I can in the real estate field.

All these factors contribute to the average age of first-time homebuyers rising to the highest ever at 38 years old and looking at the demographic data of the population by age, this should result in high demand for rentals over the coming years as a large portion of the population, especially in the Washington D.C.

And I can contribute as litte as 5K rather than the 10's of thousands I used to to purchase one property.

So thanks for contributing because you have helped more people than you know!  

In my opinion it would be cleaner to split partnership based on monetary contribution and then remunerate each active party for their work if the active work is more on one partner than the other.

Bought undervalued (market value of 265k); refinanced about 1 year later to contribute to next property purchase.