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5 January 2014 | 7 replies
My wife an I do currently have 2 condo/townhouses in addition to our home that we rent out and maintain.My goals are to start out Wholesaling to get my feet wet and build up some capital, while networking to find buyers and private lenders to eventually start flipping and also buy and hold some for long term.Thanks for reading my story!
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10 January 2014 | 49 replies
Ultimate Goal in REI: Enable "simple folk" like ourselves to capitalize on global markets previously available only to multi-national corporate strategies by facilitating affordable, high-yielding property purchases in as many countries as possible around the world (currently researching our expansion to Italy).
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26 July 2013 | 7 replies
Looks like I will have my work cut out for me as I am a freelance musician and I took decrease in earned wages this past year when I moved states.Are there other avenues of getting capital that would be better suited for my situation?
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31 July 2013 | 12 replies
Looking to learn the game through wholesaling while building capital and then eventually transitioning into more aggressive forms of investing with higher profit margins.
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26 July 2013 | 1 reply
Additional information:1) I plan on purchasing a 'turn-key' first home to live in and shortly after settling in I plan to purchase another property that needs some work to possibly flip to build up some capital for the next (bigger) investment.
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19 September 2017 | 6 replies
You may find that other aspects of the business are even more attractive to you such as working with Capital Markets side of the industry.
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27 October 2013 | 28 replies
Now that my systems are in place, anything going forward will be done much quicker.Once I get my first deal done, then yeah, I'm absolutely going to out-source that, as well as the whole virtual assistant thing, but until I have the influx of capital, everything's on a shoe-string budget, and as a direct result, will be slow-going.
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18 July 2012 | 1 reply
Investors in Your Backyard: How to Raise Business Capital from the People You Know by Asheesh Advani
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15 May 2012 | 4 replies
Some of you folks are the fast money crowd, I am in the slow and steady, (Return of my capital) group.
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24 May 2015 | 33 replies
Looking to possibly set up a C Corp and have our IRA buy shares so that we would have available capital for fix and flip opportunities.