You can flip, you can buy and hold, you can privately lend - you can do whatever you'd like with the money.What are people doing these days with chunks of cash?   

Myself and a friend are looking to get into real estate investing, specifically buy and hold or flipping, and we've been doing our due diligence over the past few months listening to podcasts, reading books, etc.

What are your holding costs based in your money in.

Buy 75 square feet of parking space in Monaco as a long term hold?

So what's the hold up?

I am currently looking for ways to get started in real estate investing and build capital for buy and hold properties.  

Was the $125,000 in cost the rehab or did that include the financing and holding costs as well?

House hacking, Buy and Hold, Flipping etc...

Is there any reason that being a licensed agent would work against me in my plans to buy and hold multifamily properties?

The only thing about a crashed market is that it may make it more likely to find such a deal, so in actuality it may very well take until that happens for a newbie to find one, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't look for a great deal because that hasn't happened yet, and it doesn't mean that you shouldn't invest if you find one of those before a crash happens, it just means that you should NOT buy anything at any time that is NOT a great deal, or buy anything (great deal or not) that you can't realistically afford to hold through a downturn under some reasonably bad analysis stress tests.