Hi BP Nation,I'm furthering my RE Education.

I suggest you educate yourself like never before and learn everything you can about RE investing.

I think that San Antonio will be a good place to be for years depending on any changes that the government does in the future.Since you and your wife are working you might consider financing good people that have been turned down by conventional financing that are still good.  

Hi everyone,I am a new investor and am currently in the stage of educating myself as much as possible through reading real estate books, listening to the bigger pockets podcast, and hanging out on the Bigger Pockets site. 

As soon as you can comfortably do it after you close on an improved property get the exterior door locks changed.  

This was changed in tax code by congress to fund the affordable care act.

Hi @Ashli Addison, welcome to BP and the REI world, yes i agree there can definitely be an information overload with educating yourself in REI, but its good that you are now jumping to take the next step and get some forward motion on your business, while you will never stop learning taking the first steps and making real progress is a big accomplishment and one step most new people never take "study from the sidelines" but best of luck with your REI adventures and post up any deals/success/questions you get, we all like to see each other succeed,good luck,jay,

If you're open to that kind of change, you may find what you're looking for elsewhere.One other note: for accessing Downtown JC and Hoboken from anywhere in Jersey City, Uber & Lyft are life changing.

but that was 20 years ago and the market may have changed, I don't know.But here's something else to consider; you said you're losing your job.

However, I went to the first meeting and the main speaker was an out-of-town guy giving a super high-pressure sales job for some MLM program called "Financial Education Services Protection", which didn't actually have anything to do with real estate, other than he was pitching us to pressure credit challenged prospects into buying this (my opinion) predatory program.