Jose,While there are many different benchmarks to compare an investment to in order to gauge success (excluding subjective meanings of success), an easy comparison is one made against the stock market (i.e.

So any profit would have to be achieved via property and rent appreciation. 

My father owned a very successful manufacturing business and brought home around $175k/year.

Ryan - I too had great success at the recent OK tax sales and knowing what little I do know from other Tax Deed purchases across the US, I would not attempt to quiet the title myself.

Investing requires cash, there are other approaches to starting without cash however they are usually much more work than a iindividule is prepared for and are rarley successful.

Its a strategy that our team has used successfully in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn and parts of Queens as well (Jamaica, Ozone Park, Astoria).

In my view, this is a full time job to achieve a significant level of success.

I have equity in my primary residence and have been studying up on biggerpockets.I am working on 2 BRRRRs at the moment.I know everyone approaches this differently.... but how would YOU achieve financial freedom if you were to start over again with a 250k loan?

After four years in multi-family investing with great success, I am now fully focused in real estate as a multi-family investment consultant with Buckingham Investments in the South Bay area of Los Angeles.    

It simply didn’t make sense for me to invest locally.Still there are a lot of successful investors in your area.