I’ve been listening to the podcasts and absorbing all of the information I can for over a year now.

Find a team: lender, RE agent (preferably one who also invests and knows the ins and outs of your strategy), attorney (investor friendly), insurance agent5.

Find  property with  very low rental rates compared to the market or that you can re-configure/change the use on.Even land is probably a good thing to look at in your market.

(military isn't bad, but new leases every year or so from what I've heard and very few casino workers as the closest one to yucca valley is 29 palms)I have found the area to be very misunderstood - as people driving by assume meth labs, sex offenders and neonazis  ---  when instead you find millionaire horse/animal lovers, older retirees who feel like they have found shangri-la, and an increasing amount of younger LGBT creative folks re-creating identity in the serenity of the desert. also, $15/hr minimum wage law is underway - going up $1 a year until $15 in 2020. 

Recast meaning paying a lump sum toward the principal which results in re-amortizing the loan (note; this is not a REFI).  

Preferably as many units as possible but with hidden value in making improvements (the unfinished attic in our current house was a goldmine) a.My feeling is auctions are good place to go for this but I don’t know anything about auctions. 3.Rent a property to live in for the first year I can’t subject my fiancé to living in a gut rehab again 4.Use the cash generated from the property and work during that first year to put together a down payment for a house for us. 5.Re finance the rental property and buy more property.These are my other day one questions: 1.I’m an architect, does anyone have any advice for actively leveraging my skills to help me do this real estate investing thing full time/ what career change could help me ease into this while still having a salary?

I'm 21 and will be beginning my RE investment journey in Lafayette starting this summer.

Great spot to own RE.

@James Holmes Welcome to BP and congrats on getting your start in RE even if it involved a purchase that maybe was not an ideal move, it is still getting in and starting.

Good Afternoon BP,I am a full time Real Estate Broker/Investor in Greenwich, CT licensed in CT & NY. My parents plan on buying a place in Naples in the future. Florida is a reciprocal state to Connecticut for lice...