This includes a mortgage banker who can walk you through financing options, rates and pre-qualify you; a contractor to help with bid/rehab estimates; an investment-savvy realtor with access to the MLS; and a property manager who can advise on rents, rentability and demand.

Suggest you consult your own tax adviser for specific details that apply to your circumstances.

I'm looking to learn about investing in Real Estate, and was advised to check out BiggerPockets.

So I want to make sure you have every possible opportunity to consider.Please advise,

Make a trusted adviser the independent trustee and your children the beneficiaries of the trust 4.

Pay a professional for specific advise.

Would you have recommendations/advise of what zip codes/up-and-coming neighborhoods to look for in these cities?

That's how I've been advised.

One contract with an attachment of a list of all 45 properties with legal descriptions or would you draft 45 different contracts for each property....which is what a loan officer at an investor friendly title company advised me to do?

There is no accounting for what people will do with money, especially when they are uneducated on the subject.A good friend of mine sold his mother's 3b/2b house 22 years ago for $27k and left the money sitting in the bank because his brother, a Realtor, advised him to do so.