If someone was building their home new (or major reno) for the first 5 months of the year and then places the property into service in June, does the first 5 months of contractor work (building the new home) count towards the calculations or does the timeline only start after the home is put into rental service?

It was fantastic for networkingI don’t know for sure, but it seems like at around the same time that BiggerPockets started hosting its own conferences and advertising boot camps and such that it became harder and harder to find where on the website that you could find local meetups.This morning I searched the website to try to find where local meetups were posted on the website and it took me between 5 and 10 minutes to find it.

This is the perfect place to start learning and building connections for your real estate journey.

Hey Hughston, start by connecting with the locals in your chosen market.

@Mohsin MazharI had the same sentiments when I first started.

Wow, wish you had started this in San Diego.

Basically if you're in the upper credit tier it's not too difficult, and no sense in paying someone to do it.Regarding the company, I've been following the misc posts for a while, everyone does say starting out it uses your personal credit to start, then they open business lines.Personally for RE, I don't see it as a great model. 

As such, I just enrolled in the program and am starting tomorrow.

I would start pitching to friends and family and then join a local RE meetup group to get to know people.

Don't overthink it, househack if you can to start, keep educating yourself and saving money and you'll figure out how to buy the next properties afterwards.