Hello Everyone,I'm looking for some guidance from any seasoned investors, attorneys, lawyers, wholesalers, flippers, buy & hold, or any active forum members.I am trying to find my first investment deal and what to make sure I'm going about things the best way possible and avoid any rookie mistakes.

Any help or guidance in getting started would be much appreciated. 

@Orion Walker Super happy I could provide advice that was valuable. 

I really appreciate the reading on the skyscraper technique, that's one I haven't yet come across, it appears to be valuable and I will work on that for sure. 

His guidance was so simple if people can live in it and will pay over your costs to live there buy it!

Get a local realtor to help you out as he will have the most valuable knowledge on this for you.

This should get you to 5 to 10 cities.A rental property is no more valuable than the jobs around it so you need to look at job stability in each of the cities.

I'm looking for guidance but really to talk and build business-relationships. 

A Reg D fund will cost anywhere from $15K-$30K to have a competent securities attorney write the PPM, Operating agreements, disclosures, do the appropriate filings and provide guidance for promoting your fund while staying compliant with SEC and state securities regulations. 

Each dollar of depreciation is thus more valuable to Investor A than to Investor B.