The information available is amazing, but also very overwhelming and I am not sure where to start.I'm currently in some credit card and student loan debt and looking for advice on whether it's smarter to get more in debt to be able to start with flipping/house hacking sooner, or to continue to read for the year and a half to two years or more it will take me to get rid of my debt and save enough for a down payment.  

If current fed gov't plans keep rolling in the same direction, well in WI we burn lots of coal right now, they want to just kill that off sooner or later and that's not good for our future rates and one bit of useless trivia I know is that IL has more nuclear plants than any other state, not sure where that concept is headed after what happened in Japan, but I doubt it will help to lower costs for nuke plants!

Mainly I am thinking of how to put the profits in each account to use sooner by combining them.

I had just planned to rent for 2yrs before I try to buy, but I hate throwing money away and wondered if it can be done sooner counting the rental income.  

Starting earlier means that you start the mortgage pay down sooner if you Buy and Hold and therefore your properties are paid off faster as you get older.2.

Ideally, I'd like to start with MFH first but am trying to get my portfolio started sooner than later.

Hi all i'm new to the community my name is Miguel and i'm looking forward to learn with all you guys about the beauty of real state. a little something about me, i'm 37 years old i'm a proud father of 2 boys and 1 girl, as well a beautiful wife, i love working out in the gym,running playing basketball and really anything that can improve my healthy life style. i work in the construction field doing office work, yeah yeah your typical 9-5 only mine is 6am to 5pm yes long hours and i'm tired of it. being doing it for 10 years and i believe there something better out in this world for me and that's one of the reasons i decide to give this community a try. i'm not that far behind on the real state me and my wife bought our first one and only home 9 years ago a multifamily home and we being leaving rent free. but now its getting old not knowing whats next and how to provide some freedom to spend more time with my family. i always like real state but never gave the proper effort to learn more about it and to stretch it to the max. so that's a little about me i'm sure i will meet a lot of awesome people here and i'm looking forward to it, anyone from new jersey i'm here if you like to go for a jog or grab a cup coffee.

We are going to use this cash flow to pay down the HELOC we use for down payments so that we can buy more houses sooner.

Marketing for flips to start early next year or sooner as well and going to buy the second buy and hold next summer.I got licensed primarily to speed up the search process and to be able to sell some flips myself. 

Because I am interested in getting the property sooner than that I am considering having someone else come on the deal with me...what's step 1 in getting the process started for a buy and hold partnership?