. $150k does not look like it will cut it for the type of investment I am looking for….I suppose I could invest this cash in the stock market or something else with high risk/returns (currently have just 1% net worth in crypto), but I generally feel that the nearly all markets (stocks, bonds, EM, etc.) are too high and overvalued even after this weeks drop.

I have a couple years of experience working in property management/real estate and am a photographer/web designer specializing in Real Estate.

When I started the process, my web apps were nothing more than glorified excel spreadsheets --- the required manual entry, but solved a problem by consolidating all of my information.

The real estate industry is very clique-ish and having more open doors is crucial in my book.

Account Closed one book will not teach you everything you need to know about multifamily investing.There are some good books, great podcast and tons of knowledge on the web. 

I'm also a newcomer here on this BP web community, but I have been a very successful investor in Kitsap County Real Estate for over 35 years.  

@Andrew Johnson I drove around a few neighborhoods to find the homes and then I web searched the address to find the last known owner.

Looking at city web pages, researching Biz journals and looking at big brokers web pages can be good.

A quick introduction, I'm a web developer out of Columbus, Ohio and a serviceman in the Army National Guard.

You also have to pay additional cost like the buyers premium as well as the EM is usually a lot higher than you would normally put down.