A good buyer's agent is an asset that's worth his weight in gold.

Do your own research.

While the slow gains on mutual funds and 401k and IRA are nice, I'm looking for more cash flow.I've been doing research about real estate investing for a week or so now .

I’m currently doing research on the pros/cons of condos/townhouse.

I know a lot of you probably think this is a dumb question, but I've been doing some research and I've been reading and hearing so many different things that I'm totally confused and don't know what to do.

As a recent graduate with no prior REI experience, I am curious whether I should be putting more of an effort into finding a more experienced partner or simply doing the research and going at it alone.

Good job on researching comps.

@Chris Sukala    So they had you wire the funds, then you are good as gold. 

@Corby Goade thanks for the tips, I'll do some research and start the local networking as you mention.

I used to create Google calendar events for action items or a spreadsheet to track research, but I started getting buried by the sheer amount of the information.We use a task tracking software called JIRA at work so I decided to give it a try to track all the REI knowledge I was gaining.