Everyone has their own goals for performance.

Understand the pros and cons of each approach, and consider which aligns best with your goals, risk tolerance, and resources.Evaluate Your Resources: With a healthy credit score and $35,000 in liquid funds, you have a solid foundation for real estate investing.

It all depends on what your goals are. 

Your margins are going to have to be tight or be willing to take on extreme projects (fire damage, etc.). 

. $225KProperty Features:First floor: 2 bed/1 bath, potential rent $1,200Second & third floor: 4 bed/2 bath, potential rent $1,500Separate utilities and heating/central AC systemsInitially, I projected over an 8% cash-on-cash return.

I agree my goal is to have investors work with me for life building our portfolios together.

My initial goal is to house hack, purchasing a small multi-family property within the next year, ideally the next 6 months.I am between Atlanta and Athens and have relatively little savings so unless I find a partner I will likely be using an FHA or USDA loan for my first property.

Using max leverage with no money down, occupying one side, and the long term goal of wealth.

My team and I purchase raw land, entitle, add-value, and subdivide lots for residential projects to resell to national home builders or other developers. 

I have not personally come across any lenders that accept a least above what the appraiser said the market Projections are.