I can tell you that it is hands on and we orient you and get you started on a specific path that leads to your particular goal - and we do it together which means showing and doing it with you so you watch and learn and implement.

5: get involved in everything REI to keep u in touch with ur goals, be willing to put the time in and as u do ur path will unfold6: weekly analyse where u are at.

You are on the right path, keep it up my man. stay positive and dominate the market.

I'm also not sure about the housing market here, I've been searching for deals every way I know how for the last 5 months here and while there are some decent deals here, the return just doesn't seem to be worth the investment although if you believe the stats on areavibes.com it shows that 48.9% of housing in this city is renter occupied, which seems incredibly high, so for a long term buy and hold might sound decent, but I think it also means there are not many people buying homes here which means I could get completely stuck in a property with no exit strategy.I'm just racking my brain and trying to use this incredible gift to help put me in a much better situation, even though I know it's not an insane amount and I need to be extremely careful with it because one wrong move right now and it could all be gone.I have loved the career path I've been in working in news, it's been incredibly fun and fulfilling, but I'm seeing the writing on the wall that this industry is going through a change, and people in my position are starting to get cut and also paid less than we were 10 years ago. 

This story is a tangled one...what path do we pursue? 

So if you are self employed and not taking income through a standard path...they scratch their heads.

You seem a lot further down the path of doing your first flip and I look forward to following your posts to learn as much as I can.  

Ohio, like a majority of the midwest is a market with a low barrier to entry.You would need to decide for yourself which path you want to take. 

In the real world, I've only ever seen three paths to success when starting with very little: 1) Some forgiving friends or family backing/money 2) Accidental landlords who wind up with a property (move and don't sell, inheritance, etc) and become real estate investors (house hacking is a subset of this) 3) Super ambitious all-or-nothing types with a lot of guts (1 in a 1000)I think you need to step back and ask yourself what value-add you can provide that other players in your market (with 100 times more experience and capital) need or lack.  

This one quote started me on a path of Audio-ingestion where i listened to everything i could find.