My friends and family own lots of properties but they never have anyone suing them all these 20 years.

This experience soured me to the point where I invested only with my friend who acts as my GC or partner on different deals.  

I have close friends who have invested in wholesale multi-family properties in Bakersfield with much success and am interested in doing the same.  

@Kenneth Williams - true story- after I posted, a friend I was stationed in with Germany 15 years ago called me out of the blue to catch up.  

Hi folks, I lend money to a friend last year in April for her flip in Mountain Baldy, San Bernardino CA.

There are other parts of the Charleston area that are more friendly to STRs than City of Charleston, but they'll also be more regulated soon.The commercial multifamily inventory is really difficult here lately.

My best advice is start with personal recommendations from friends and family in the area, try driving for contractors; kinda like driving for dollars, but you are looking in areas where there is a lot of investor activity and start collecting cards.

Does anybody know a good investor-friendly real estate agent that can help me find 3-4 unit house in Passaic, Essex, Hudson, or Bergen counties?

One of my friend told me that if the closing date is like in March or after, I need to pay the property taxes on Land ONLY for that first year as the builder did not finish the construction and valuation is done only for land at the beginning of the year.

After that It's just up to you to make some friends!