Ideally, I'd envision using this platform to cultivate working relationships, and if all goes well find folks in my area to help along the way.

Hi BP community:Twice in the last week on different platforms (Quora and Atlanta House Share) I've seen 2 posts from people saying that if a person is investing/providing housing that they should not be doing it as their sole income and from one, "They have no business doing this as sole income and the bank made a very serious mistake."   

If you read this post can you please give me advise and tell me how you started out with real estate investing and what resources and platforms you use.

I am eager to get started in real estate and see using a platform like Roofstock as a great way to get into the game and continue to build my knowledge, but curious to know what anyone’s thoughts on are this.Thank so much!

I have a bent toward Real Estate (and obviously BP is a Real Estate based platform) so I would say put your money into real estate.

We bought it and jumped in finding contractors while building the platform/business to market the units.

One thing I wish I would have done when I started investing in real estate 3 years ago is immediately creating a thought leadership platform (or multiple ones).

Looking forward to learning a lot from this platform.

But charging agents seems like "biting the hand that feeds" because Zillow's entire web platform is built off syndicating MLS data (which we agents already pay for in terms of subscriber fees to maintain each of our MLSes). 

@Tyler Elmore BP is one of the best platforms for new investors to network and build relationships.I've also found attending local meetups to be very beneficial.