I am new to both Bigger Pockets and real estate.

I read a lot of real estate books, I studied a lot on bigger pockets, I have family members who have done ok in real estate and its something I always knew, I wanted to get into.

Obviously some of this won't work on bigger jobs or needs to be tweaked a bit.

Hi Eric, Typically passive income/losses (rental income) can only be used to offset other passive income. 

It’s sold for a loss, etc.

I'm a new guy to the website from Atlanta - new to Real Estate Investing and new to Bigger Pockets.

I am new to the Bigger Pockets Community, and its amazing to join an online Real Estate community that has such an active/great response rate to all forums/questions asked by everyone.

@Luke BWelcome to Bigger Pockets.

aged LLC won't help much. business credit does not build the same as personal creditadditionally, unless you partner up with a large apartment complex as a passive investor, you'll be buying a loan that requires a personal guarantee, which means your credit will be a factor.the bigger complex you buy, the less this matters, but if your experience is low and you're the deal principle then you'll have to prove your track record.....which is your credit score. yeah, good credit takes time.

@John KeenanWelcome to Bigger Pockets.