My husband is a contractor which gives us a leg up in flipping, but we are also curious about diversifying and buying rentals.

Quote from @Sri Reddy: I am a newbie to real estate investing and looking for guidance from the teams here to understand the sources from where we can find any small retail spaces to buy.

An opportunity to buy my second property has come.

You could force the seller to bring it up to code before the sale is complete as one of the contingencies of buying it, let them deal with it.

I recently came in contact with a RE investor who is farther down the line in his career than I am. When I asked him where he gets his deals from, he said wholesalers, word of mouth, and bigger pockets. It surprised m...

Quote from @Jaycee Greene: Quote from @Mark Daniels: I know in residential lending you can get a HELOC to borrow a down payment to buy another property.

And it can work really well for you as long as you pay attention to the statute requirements.In order to defer all tax you are selling investment real estate and buying investment real estate of at least the same value you sold. 

Or you can just put it all into the reserve account, growing that to buy your next property and/or for future capex or vacancy/unit make-ready expenses.

My mum currently lives there, she is 80 and not very well, but you would also become a tenant in common and as such if you had the time you could profit 100% from the transaction, as I need cash urgently and am willing to heavily discount the asset.I am wondering if there is a market out there where someone wants to get a foothold in the London market by buying my part of the property.

The only reason I got an LLC was to buy a commercial property because it was a requirement of the lender.