Called the contact they gave me for employment verification, checked out.

Also, have any of you seen negative impacts on your house/rental when a major employer has a large lay off in the area?

My employer direct-deposits my paycheck on the last day of the month.  

@Chad ReidlingerYou may want to look into opening as self-directed IRA that can be invested in real estate once you transfer the former employer 401k into it.

So you can technically operate as a sole proprietor in all of your businesses and not have to worry about converting passive income into active business income if you are flipping, because only the *intended* flips will be subject to self employment tax and ordinary income.

All rail service hubs on the downtown area, and suburb-to-suburb transit options are limited to those suburbs along the rails lines.Those properties near the stations have the best values.A key consideration, of course, is the location of centers of employment.

I'm trying to boost my savings so I can get in the game quicker, when I came up with the idea of redirecting some of the funds I allocate to my 401K towards REI.Admittedly, the stock market craziness is what got me thinking, but in addition to that my employer matches up to 5% and I'm putting in 10%.

Thanks to him I shifted my mindset from that of an Employe to a Business owner / Investor.

Has been working full time in 2015 and is on track for income of $170,000 between self employment and real estate investment profits, thats doing nothing else the rest of the year.What would be the best way for them to obtain financing for either a non-owner occupied 2-4 unit income property in the $300k range OR an owner occupied duplex in the $600k range, and is it possible?  

I plan to have my course finished by the end of 2015 but recently have been employed by a company with good growth prospects so unsure whether I will pursue a job as an agent as I only wanted the job for the knowledge it would bring.At this point, my passion for games has all but dried up and as that was one of the few thing I identified with and made most of my friends through.