How I long for the day when I can (semi) retire on my passive income.. ;) btw, I saw someone from the east coast on a bay area forum who was trying to buy property - specifically in Hercules - to my surprise.

I am also very interested in investing in notes so if anyone here has experience doing so I would love to talk to you about it.The reason I am looking for cash flow is I am looking at retiring early.

Hence I am trying to confirm this via Bigger Pockets My back ground is sales Hiring training motivating etc Able to retire a while back But am bored hence my interest in Wholesaling ANY IDEAS on LEADS ETC Thank Bruce

If you have funds in a self-directed IRA or self-directed solo 401k, the following banks will lend funds to retirement accounts for investing in real estate. http://www.iralending.com/http://www.myiralender.com/

Kelly....My feeling on this program.I worked for many years in a VA Medical Center (retired last year after 30 years).  

What you have seems to be working perfectly for you, but you might want to consider for a minute this: what happens when you want to retire and stop working, right now you are the foundation, everything slowly crumbles.

my whole life i know real estate in some form was going to be something i pursued in life .although i don't have experience in being a landlord i have been to many seminars and have had conversations with a lot of landlords i also come from a family( brother and father who are active landlords).You may be saying if u know all this why are u asking because i want to see what other people would do i love hearing suggestions one little suggestion can change my view on investing.A couple of people made points about rehabbing ,, i would look into that right now I'm focus on cash flow and rentals.i actually have some investors who want to buy i may bring up that idea later done the road and J-V with 1 or 2 of them.somebody also brought up Appreciation - one of the reasons i do look into that is because as a small business owner i don't have a 401k so without no retirement fund i could use a duplex as my retirement fund also the area I'm thinking of buying this duplex is actually a very hot area .

Maybe theres a retired remodeler out there that would just love to spend some time on your job sites and let you pick his brain.

Little old lady who is retired.

@Rick DamianUsing your 401k to invest in notes is something that many investors do and prefer over just investing their retirement funds into investment real estate.