“not all transactions involving a rapid purchase and resale are improper.”

My net out of pocket expense is roughly $14K, finance it with a low payment, and rapidly pay it off.

:@Caleb HeimsothI'll do $9,999.00 :) Deal but I only accept payments in 1 dollar increments.  

@Taylor Stamm here's a good overview of the state of the solar industry in Florida: https://www.solarpowerrocks.comCounter-intuitively, the "Sunshine State" has not been kind to solar historically, but that is has changed in the past few years and the solar market is rapidly developing there now.

With low oil over the last few years, exploration has significantly decreased worldwide and there are predictions of an oil shortage by as soon as 2020 http://business.financialpost.com/commodities/ener...Anchorage is slightly less dependent on oil as the state is with strong, rapidly growing, employment in the medical field and a large army and air force base.

As disheartening as it is to see properties listed day after day that don't meet your criteria, if you really are looking to grow in real estate at a rapid pace, you can't do that by investing in mediocre deals... you have to find the great ones.  

My salary and frugal lifestyle allow me to save $3k a month, which I currently just dump into ETFsCurrently live in Denver, CO (have previously lived in Chicago and Central IL, Houston TX, Cleveland OH, Iowa City & Cedar Rapids, IA)Looking to free-up probably ~$50k for now to invest in real estateGoals:long term growth through using leverage to buy and hold rental propertiesearly retirement when it conservatively makes sense (at 30 would be great :) - I'm 25 now)Here's where you come in!

As housing prices increase, socialism will increase rapidly.

But the OP is just starting so that's the question if he plans to grow big rapidly. 

The biggest thing is to learn in a “needs­only” incremental approach and to take action.