I'm brand new to both the site and the concept of Real Estate Investing, so apologies if this is awkward in any way, but I wanted a little starting out advice for my specific situation, and everyone seems really nice and helpful on the forums, so I thought I'd give it a shot!

Direct mail will be your highest rate of conversion, but the other approaches taken consequently will rapidly build familiarity with you and your brand & get your leads to start calling you sooner rather than later.

One is for a rental SFR with a 20yr old unit and my personal residence because I was too broke to buy a good brand then when I first bought and rehabbed my house. 

For others we do have something called restore shops in the chicago land area - I go to the one in addison , they have some nice brand new windows at huge discount .

Hey guys, brand new to real estate, been learning for about the past 2 months.

a house on my street  ( we are in an infill area) its a 70s rancher 1400 sq feet OK shape but nice lot.. just sold for 485k  and they put a renter in it at probably not much more than 2k a month.. the renter for 2 to 2.5k a month can buy one of my brand new 450k homes.. 

@Jill CurranJill, I think you need to go back to your accountant for a deep convo.You're conflating the passive activity loss rules (IRC Sec 469) with the brand new 20% QBI deduction (IRC Sec 199A).Either one of the following is happening:(1) Your accountant is confused by what you're asking is giving you the answer to a question you haven't asked.(2) Your accountant isn't taking the time to explain things clearly and make sure you're both on the same page.(3) Your accountant is lacking in some areas of tax law.A deep and long convo should clear everything up or give you the confidence to switch accountants if your current one can't get you comfortable and explain the passive activity loss rules in layman's terms.

Brand new to bigger pockets and to real estate investing!

I work with some reasonable builders and you can potentially build a brand new house with some equity in it.

There are laws limiting the number of people and bedroom, number of unrelated people, but does not apply in your case.Imagine how ridiculous it sounds, you have a mother and son, a 8 year old no less, it's 2 people, so you have to rent a 2 BR? And