The books in the BP store are excellent - Brandon's book on Low and No Money Down, Anson's book on Finding and Funding Great Deals, and J.

They have a great product and amazing customer service

That gives them incentive to follow through and if they miss deadlines then you know they aren't serious about buying the end product. 

GREAT read. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0161VPK0Q/ref=a...Check out the podcast with Jake and Gino https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2016/07/0...https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/biggerpoc...I hope all works out!

I agree with the previous posts, the tariffs brought an almost immediate increase in appliance prices, but from what I've seen it mainly affected the higher end products.

Hey BiggerPockets,I'm interested in starting my real estate investing with small apartment buildings (around 5-12 units) in the Pittsburgh area but am having a tough time finding real estate agents who excel with these property types.Any suggestions on generating leads and finding agents who specialize in this apartment building size?

@Joshua Paul the answer to your question is that yes, this is an excellent idea!

For flips, I excel in valuing the as-is and as-repaired values and produce forward looking valuations based on market trends.

At this point everything you are saying is counter productive to doing business.

I heard MIT has an excellent Commercial RE program