As your real estate empire grows, consolidating loans into one could offer better terms and streamline management.Overall, your method of buying, living, and then converting properties into rentals is a strong, scalable strategy for building wealth. 

So I made a compromise with myself, instead of putting that $100 directly to my principle, I'm opening a brokerage account that will have $100 deposited into it automatically every month and invested in index funds using dollar cost averaging method.

Market Research: What methods do you use to analyze and understand your target market?

Google and use the enemy method.

There's no seller resistance 9 times out of 10 and I get these properties 30-40 cents on the dollar.If your wholesaling this is def a method you need to implement in your business.

If you're going for non full documentation loans then there are other methods to qualify as well (rental income/ bank deposits/profit and loss/no income/etc) but these loans have higher rates and costs typically.

I am trying my best to be methodical about where to invest out-of-state, so I made the following criteria:Population: >800k people in 2023 (based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area)Population growth2020-2023 Population growth >5% (based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area)... 

Hey Everyone, I'm a HVAC/Mechanical contractor in the Upstate of SC and looking to start building an investment portfolio using the BRRRR method.

I’ve read about strategies like house hacking but am not too enthusiastic about what it would take (also not very feasible given the current cash I have), also the ‘BRRR’ method, though I wonder if it might be too ambitious for my first property.

For my first property I'm going to use the BRRRR method and from there keep growing my portfolio.