Good luck on your new adventure.

Besides the house I live in this will be a brand new set of adventures for me.

I am going to keep my day job, and this would be a part time adventure.  

But with all of the crazy over personalization ideas people get from home makeover shows, I don't want to deal with my nice neutral color paint job covered by little Johnny's alien adventures or a tribute wall dedicated to somebody's memorial, or who knows what else?

Real estate is simple, but not easy.Good luck, and keep us all up to date on your adventure!

While that is technically true we have invested money in something, I doubt that would meet most investors definition of an investment.To me an investment generates positive cash flow...that's it (I recognize that others would consider this too narrow a definition, but for me, that is what I care about.)These properties won't cash flow, they are purely an appreciation play and that is closer to gambling than investing...to me.

It's a gamble.

To get a say 30% gain either the price has to go up 30% to 6,110 which is Ponzi scheme or gambling by investors or the S&P earnings has to go up by 47%.S&P average of 4,700 is tech heavy.  

Making the leap from my service business to real estate was a much bigger risk and bigger gamble for me than it would be for you at 19 to make a leap to Real Estate. 

BP is full of useful resources such as forums and blogs.Be sure to check out all the awesome BP blogs under “Learn.”Good luck on your new adventure!