If you want to make money, you must learn your market, know your values, have a purchase and exit strategy, and put those into action.

Anybody gone to Online Trading Academy Real Estate  www. otarealestate.com they are offering free trial course if you attend is worth attending.

Are you going to allow fear to stop you or are you going to take action in spite of fear?

Once you establish your game plan you network some more to find the necessary people to help you put the plan into action.

Additionally I create a significant amount of equity right away by rehabbing, which I'll then leverage by trading the property off, refi'ing or selling.

I need to take action, so I'm willing to stumble through each step until I can get my first deal done!

My credit has been fixed from my mess back then and is clean with 1 trade line as I rebuild my own personal credit too.

@Matthew NelsonWelcome to the site.Good to see another member with a background in the trades.

Each of the dashboard boxes should produce an action when you click on them - for example, if you want to "read the UBG" it should direct you to www.biggerpockets.com/real-estate-investingThat said, we just launched this today, if you see any bugs, please take screenshots and let me know!

Allentown is closer to the action of the Penn trpk and 78 east gets you to new York in two hours.