I recently started listening to the BP podcast and I’ve become extremely motivated to start diving into real estate investing.I’ve been sitting on the sidelines for about a year because I’m younger, 24 years old, fell on hard times (injury put me down for 7 months), I fell into a fog, trashed my credit, foolishly filed for Bankruptcy even though I wasn’t in a massive amount of debt (30k) and I ended up deeply regretting doing so.

The second recommendation would be to do a house flip with a special and your able to move there and be a "house hacker" and take advantage of the lower down payment.The only other way away from home is to buy an apartment complex that had a minimum of 30 units so that project could afford property management company from that local area, they need to be experienced and understand what you expect in reporting and current operation with phone talking. 

Since this tree is massive, it would likely cost $10K to cut it down. 

My projection for property appreciation is for it to cool off significantly for the next few years, but I could be wrong.So I look for either below retail purchases or retail purchases that have a value add.  

I am looking forward to finding a mentor that can show me the ropes and hopefully I can give back through managing some projects.

How far is too far from your town is too far to buy your first project?

i think if you look at around 750 or less for rents you will be more accurate in your projections.  

We are looking for a loan or investor but not a partner, the idea of doing some kind of crowd funding project might also be an interesting approach but was looking for some examples of that.Thanks, Fritz

From past experiences doing projects in the City, this may be a very difficult task to get approved.

I am a project manager for a large concrete contractor.