I recently got the itch to get into real estate investing after reading Rich Dad Poor Dad (now I am reading How to Invest In Real Estate -- which brought me to this site).

I plan to make a lot of buy-and-hold investments in the Scottsdale and North Phoenix area in the next few years.Yep, I have been hearing Phoenix being brought up in the area.

It probably differs depending on location, but for us it was Zillow that brought the most interest and most serious applicants. 

For those people in my circle, we were never brought up to invest.

What brought you here to BiggerPockets?

We've taken on the management of so many properties over the years that were veritable death traps before we came in and brought them to code; non-working smoke detectors, missing CO detectors, mold issues, myriad safety issues and on and on. 

Insurance has requested more and more details, which we have provided, but has told us that their numbers are significantly different from ours and recently brought one of their preferred rebuild vendors to the site to provide a different quote. 

I found THIS article and have been incorporating some of it and it has brought me buyers.

@John Dean and this is why I brought it up.

We are brought up to think we must buy our primary 1st before even thinking about investing - but this is linear thinking.