I also think that if you wait a year or two, you'll likely be able to pick property up cheaper than you can right now, since IMHO, we've peaked market-wise. 

The speed of the game is very important so investing in your education is very important.Feel free to connect at anytime!

Having said that, this isn’t a good place for our investment strategy so we invest in Arizona, Texas, Georgia and Florida and a few other select markets.If you are going to spend a lot of time here you can at least visit your assets and stay on top of the major issues, but as Ian alluded to it’ll be challenging to get up to speed on the local markets quickly.  

It does speed up the pay-off process faster than paying down all properties evenly.

9) High Speed Rail Coming Soo... erh, One Day -- I know... it'll be at least a decade, maybe two.

Lenders may accommodate the borrower by lending in the name of his entity, but the requirement of a personal guarantee shows they are really lending based on the creditworthiness of the ‘man behind the curtain”.Quite frankly, despite what some vested parties may tell you, you can’t speed up the process of qualifying your business as stand alone creditworthy.

It is estimated that population could even triple over the next 10-15 years due to the high speed rail.

San Bernardino Mountains, the cheaper areas like Crestline, Valley of Enchantment, Cedar Pines Park, Rim Forest, Twin Peaks. 

Hi BP community,I recently started my property portfolio using a bank loan, and decided to explore private investment to speed up the growth of my portfolio.I have an investor friend who is interested in backing me after I shared a presentation outlining my results on my existing property and plans for future investment.

What i'm aiming for is to find properties in areas that meet these criteria points:SFR's B-/C+ areasgood job growth outlooksolid population growth outlook1% ruleReady to rent prices around $90-12kHappy to rehab at lower prices with ARV's the same as above $90-120kI want to identify 1-3 areas (which can be multiple states) to build a bigger portfolio and scale up to 10+ SFR's per area...Open to partner providers that do BRRR rehabs to speed up the growth and scale-ability tooI'm looking at the following areas:PittsburgAlabama (montgomery/huntsville/burmingham)Greater CharlotteHouston (although the prop taxes are killer)Greater AltantaOH/Indiana -- hard to ignore, there's a lot of chatter about this area.I haven't committed to any yet but really want to have the 1-3 areas nailed down by end of Feb to start taking action!