I've been looking around the site for a few months but finally got a profile picture set up and figured its time to say hi.I've been working at an engineering company in the Lehigh Valley for almost 2 years (since I graduated college), looking to get started with buy and hold (or any strategy that would make sense at the time) in the next year or so to supplement my income and start working on long term growth.Looking forward to jumping into some conversations instead of just reading!

Some people don't want to turn this into a business, some are satisfied with just flipping a few contracts for the supplemental income.

I'm wondering if it is worth the cost to supplement my direct mail and PPC ads.Has anyone had direct success (a lead that came from a print ad) with small news or magazine print ads?

Is there a generic number we can plug in somewhere as a place holder?

I'm looking to supplement my income, and use it to buy more properties down the road.I figure by selling the condo, and the $50k I have in savings I can start putting $40-50k down payments on places before the rate hike happens later this year.  

I just wanted to supplement my retirement, not get rich LOL. 

His application was very generic and honestly the terms were simply too good to be true.

I'm not quitting my day job either.....just one property at a time for now, as supplemental income.By the way, I had never heard of Bigger Pockets until I started searching around to see if other people were doing this….then I stumbled onto a modular flipping article by Mike LaCava.  

Also there are several calculators online you can use at most big banks to see generic what payment would be or what you afford.

We are estimating and hoping for a appraisal of around $130k after everything is completed when we go to refinance again.Like I said when i started this thread my goal is to get into rental properties to help supplement our income.