I'd love to be able to buy a plot of land and simply custom-build something from the ground-up if it's going to be a similar price as buying an existing MFH that I'm not 100% in love with.

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Fill in the foundation below.Check out the Start Here page http://www.biggerpockets.com/starthere Check out BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginner's Guide - A fantastic free book that walks through many of the key topics of real estate investing.Check out the free BiggerPockets Podcast - A weekly podcast with interviews and a ton of great advice.

Fill in the foundation below.Check out the Start Here page http://www.biggerpockets.com/starthere Check out BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginner's Guide - A fantastic free book that walks through many of the key topics of real estate investing.Check out the free BiggerPockets Podcast - A weekly podcast with interviews and a ton of great advice.

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Fill in the foundation below.Check out the Start Here page http://www.biggerpockets.com/starthere Check out BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginner's Guide - A fantastic free book that walks through many of the key topics of real estate investing.Check out the free BiggerPockets Podcast - A weekly podcast with interviews and a ton of great advice.

The more time you spend reading, getting involved and connecting with other members, the better.I would recommend reading the Ultimate Beginner's Guide >>link<<.

Hi, any of you ever used UBuildIt for doing custom building?

Go through the education tab along the top and read through all the guides, read through starting out in RE under blog topics, and start listening to all of the podcasts.That will give you a good foundation and show you that there are different niches of real estate, and you will begin to think about your goals, and what you want to get out of real estate and then you'll be well on your way to studying the exact strategy you want to pursue so you can get into real estate.Until you decide what investing strategy / niche you want to get into, you'll be lost in the real estate sauce for a while.For instance...