Your father took a steps in that direction and reached goals; now you continue taking steps and reach your goals.Consider spending 30 minutes for 30 consecutive days on Bigger Pockets.

., resident in the forums.Click on the "learn tab" at the top of the page, and you could be spending many hours on the Information that is available.Raymond

Your accident served you well when it delivered you to Bigger Pockets.Consider spending 30 minutes for 30 consecutive days on Bigger Pockets.

The building is 2 hours away from my home, so I have to book a hotel room if I'm going to spend the weekend there.

If you're looking to get started with a buy-hold strategy, I would recommend as your first step to spend a few hours every week scanning the MLS, or Redfin, or any similar site.

I think this is a good starting point for newer investors, but also think part of the reason some of the more experienced guys on here think it is a waste of time is because they can typically look at a deal sheet and know on instinct whether or not to spend the time analyzing the property further.To more specifically answer your question, I do not think you should make an offer on a property based on the 50% rule.

I understand the different types of investing and making profits without having to spend any of your own money.

Basically I'm looking to find the cash buyers/ investors looking to spend money on a flip.

We spent approx $20,000 so far on renovations and estimate we have approx $17,000 more to spend on renovations.The bottom line is we don't think we will be finished paying and doing renovations until March of 2016 so we have put all our cash flow back into renovating these 2 duplexes.  

I understand the different types of investing and making profits without having to spend any of your own money.