They are a Purchase & Sale Agreement, Title Report, Power of Attorney, Disclosures, Closing Statement, Payoffs and a business card to a good attorney to get you out of the mess you will create if you try doing this on your own.But use somebody, like us, that actually knows what they are doing to learn this.

This forum is an excellent place to gain valuable knowledge to learn and grow within real estate. 

I'm coming back to the states after three years of working abroad, and am interested in learning more as a real estate investor.

For the first time, our tenants learned that I'm not a charity.

Lessons learned?

Always ready to learn and network with long term goals of creating everlasting financial literacy and wealth for my family and many future generations that’ll come after I’m gone.

Smart equates to experience, which I know you want to build up, so in the beginning it might not be profitable, especially the more complicated the construction project, but you’ll learn stuff.

Lessons learned?

Self-management isn't just about hiring cleaners, its very much learning the nuance of the STR market, how to navigate all the various software, how to market the property - from photos, to listing copy, to policies, etc and then staying on it. 

The paralysis by analysis stage is always the toughest phase to break past but once you apply the action with the knowledge you have, you will learn that it's not as scary as you once thought.