Hello Everyone, I am excited to be part of the biggerpockets community.My interest in investment real-estate was inspired while I was working as a residential property manager for an investment company in CA.

BUT only SOLD COMPS 6months or less, close to the property, make sure apples to apples ie 3 bed/2bath--3/2 ; sq footage same (close) and close to same year built.5) Work on developing a team-- this will be dynamic at first..a) A good realtor 2) title person--help get comps 3) banker 4) loan personyeh contractors-- Im a general but a have a good eletrical. painter, tile, hvac, group-- maybe you be the general and find good subs--6) TO BE truly successful you MUST start a data base of Buyers and Sellers --KEY --Investors are buyers-- NETWORKING is another giant key.GOOD LUCK , get excited when you get discourage--thats a hill you just climbed over --that much closer to you GOAL....

It is exciting research but federal funding is hard to get in any area of research ... even if you live in the northeast or on the west coast where most of the funding goes.

Having a rental just fits in very well with my outlook at this point in my life.I just read through Mike's blog and it's an exciting look at the business of being a landlord.

I really enjoy the business and look forward to it everyday but I am exciting to start buying properties.

I am new to this kind of business, but excited to learn as much as possible and grow with my company.

Its all so exciting, yet intimidating!

But I'm really excited to get into it now and already starting to put things togetherAt any rate, I've got a lot of questions and I do not apologize for that :wink: Thanks!

I am in New York because I am involved with an exciting new social networking site focused to bring together the real estate and building industries, namely : real estate, planning, finance, development, design, construction, fabrication, and products.

Not get too excited.