MLS, knowing my numbers, knowing the market, studying the listing, and having a team in place.

If buying a condo research the HOA health, engineering study, last 5 years of HOA board and meeting minutes and last three years of HOA financials/reserves. 

I'm really interested in foreclosure/ pre-foreclosure purchases and have been studying on how to read court documents, title searches, and I have been watching the auctions daily.

Take a look at the study from Amsterdam. by Piet Eichholtz Eichholtz_A-long-run-house-price-index.pdf (maastrichtrealestate.com)basically a nearly 400 year study of the prices of the same homes along the best canals in Amsterdam since 1628, and the prices rose at about 2-3% or the historic rate of inflation there, same study has been retroactively and proactively studied in almost all countries on Earth and they all get same answers over long term, (Re rises with inflation rate) Now you can have short term bubbles like now in USA, but they usually deflate like the 22% drop from 1929-1935 or the 34% drop from 2006 to 2012, which many of us benefitted from.

According to our lawyer and case study, our base starting pay back is the 75k + taxes, interest, and insurance and not the 200k we paid so we subpoenaed the previous owner for all of his figures he spent renovating the house.

I have been studying the dustin hahn tax lien and deed program however now there's a $4995  8 week mastermind course that they recommend.has anyone encountered thisNeed guidance

Hi All, I have been studying markets in real estate investing for some time now.

Once you do that, extensively study and visit the area.

every person who builds a house or a commercial building has to do so with 25% equity to get it financed with a bank. there is absolutely value in new construction. the hard part becomes making sure your architect knows how to design a building that can make money. but saying you don't know how to is a little silly it's the same idea as existing but ground up you just study the market and look at land more than you do anything else. you can build a house anywhere but you want to do it in better areas. it's either than or higher density's smaller floorplans, etc 

Although this isn't a material to study, another thing to think about before you become a GP is building a track record, if you haven't done so already.