I wasn't actually aware I would need to create a separate management company to manage my rental company in order to have earned income (ie salary)Now in your opinion would it better to go the full passive income route (even with me self-managing) and for myself be technically "unemployed" forever. or to split it and give myself a salary apart from the LLC. tax, retirement implications?

Of course, you could just buy utilizing a loan with a down payment but in my opinion, if you have the cash to purchase up front, you have more leverage with the bank on the back end. 

Hello everyone,I am considering getting into property management in my area and was hoping to get some opinions from those who work in the field currently or use a property manager for their rentals.

Plus, in my opinion, if you’re feeding a property because it’s leveraged but it’s appreciating, your return on that appreciation plus amortized loan payoff will exceed the return you’d get putting cash in the stock market. 

I'm looking for advice on the best way to build the funds necessary for a decent down payment, as I don't have a ton of money saved up right now.Also, I'd like opinions on whether it could make sense to get an FHA Loan to begin building equity to borrow against?

@Cassidy BurnsI'm going to assume you're just brainstorming, but if you're thinking about implementing tax advice from the radio show host in the Youtube video you posted, please get a second opinion from a tax professional.I only made it through 5 minutes of the video before turning it off. 

hi Brittany so my opinion is find a group of people that you have connections with that have homes and are interested in selling them and probably your personal connections to these people is probably what you should think about when looking for deals and then get them under contract and basically promote them to your network of figure practice or whatever investor networks that you have and they’ll be investors that are looking to buy pretty much every property that’s out there and it doesn’t take much to market them.

In my opinion, you might be better going from a large market like Boston to a market with some solid fundamentals to ease your way into out of state investing - if you're looking to be in NH, then Manchester is probably your best bet. 

It really is not the best list to sent to... in my honest opinion...But alas...

So I am in the midst of searching for my first real estate investment and plan to use an FHA loan to put as low as 3.5% down to house hack- I would like to know your opinions on the following financing options for down payment and closing costs: 1.