I would recommend a mentor or doing JV with an experienced investor.Buy & Hold: Like everything in life it is what you put in, if you go in knowing its going to be a headache it will be.

Tons of life/safety issues & too many interior/exterior issues to list.

But I am who I am (and had the black widow spiders, rattle snakes, and large flying cockroaches - that we used to catch and fly on strings in our back yard to prove it) and although I do make apologies for it....I'm continuing through the course of life down the road I carved our

Is an initial 20-50k spread (a spread likely to decrease over time) worth your life and the lives of your family helping you out?

Rehab and Construction process - turning a distressed property into an actual solid property that an end consumer will thoroughly enjoy, possibly for the rest of their life.2.

The other realtor talked me out of student housing because her students drove an SUV into a dining room and others took batteries out of the CO and smoke detector to put in their controls!!!

It's the ah-ha moment that can change your life.  

I'm trying to build a portfolio of rental properties and since I've lived in SoCal my whole life, I thought it'd be best to start in my backyard. 

My name is Alex, I just put in my two weeks notice at my job in politics that I've held for the past 5 1/2 years in hopes of following my passion in teaching yoga & Pilates and to figure out a way to live a way of life outside of "the grind."

Hello ALL,   My Name is Erica and I'm looking to drastically change my life and get involved in real estate.