My name is Tyler and I am starting my REI career.

@Ryland Taniguchithanks for the insight on KW and also congrats on all your success so far in your  career.

Now my question is how can I mange to use this now opportunity to raise private funds to buy it back and use this home as our first step in starting a real estate investment career?

Cool, but not the type of project with which to start your development career.

Add in a 25 year executive advertising career, with a passion to build things and the sweat equity to match and the cash will come.

Hi Everyone, I’ve been a landlord for a while and in the past few years working with partners.We have several triplex buildings (15 units) in a LLC (mortgages in our names) and would like to grow this to over 100 units.We prefer the buy and hold strategy as we have full time careers and work the properties passively versus fixing and flipping on a fulltime basis.We are looking for a mentor to help guide us through the commercial/portfolio lending process as we have bumped up against the mortgage limit.

“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career.

@Jordan CartyI think the agent question is usually less about your investment plans, and more about your career plans.

I'm looking to start my REI career in this general area with the goal of expanding down the line.  

If you have a career move or are moving across town to be closer to work, that should also be a good enough reason.