Make sure you understand the difference between investing in capital assets vs other types of investment and the difference in using pre-tax vs post-tax retirement accounts.

.- REO "specialist" realtors opening pre-escrow with multiple title companies, looking at the prelims, and using whichever title company screwed up and didn't notice the clouded title.

a few years later, I plan to refinance and roll the equity into another apartment building using a 1031 tax deferral. 

2) if I find local properties what are some major costs with the purchasing process and has anyone done pre-auction or direct to seller home purchasing?

At this time I will have been a resident in Florida for a year which hopefully qualify me for instate tuition.I will a lot myself 4 month to finish up Pre-requisite module and 2 year to complete an MBA part-time.9/2017-1/20205.

The additional payment would be far smaller than coming up with the 7 grand, so if you want to do more deals I would roll it in. 

So currently I'm looking at a pre-foreclosure.

Here's some background: My stepdad was no longer able to pay the mortgage on the property, the property was put into the pre-foreclosure process , I was able to get the property out of pre-foreclosure.

There are tons of young working professionals who are making really good money, but have tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands in student debt, who won't get pre approved for a loan.

Investors scoop up & sell the land early, pre-development.