Remember you don't have to own a property to control it.Good LuckPaul

., and remember you need to have some reserves, but taking the $30k and buying 2-$50k houses is possible, but that is pushing it.This would also mean you have $0 for rehab if your going straight to conventional financing.You can utilize hard money to help conserve capital IF your buying and rehabbing the houses and still your "all in" well under the appraised value when your finishing (ARV).

Tempe and South Scottsdale are poised to become the new epicenter of this amazing, changing, diverse and growing city in which I surely want to be a part of shaping.Glendale's Grand Canyon University is ASU's powerful real estate, oops, educational competitor and is buying land and buildings faster than you can say: Crap, what the fudge just happened?

When I walked through the house to look at it the dogs definitely used the bathroom in the garage and chewed up 75% of the trim throughout the house and my dogs while inside by themselves they ate through the drywall in a few places in the house and this is where my biggest concern is that mold from the dogs urinating on the walls and the moisture seeping in and not being noticed and mold growing from there.

Books specific to real estate investment and landlording.My library of good books has been growing over time.

Essentially it's about building, fostering and growing relationships.

There were 2 in Colorado Springs in the past couple of years that I remember."

The corporate life is becoming very monontonous and way to political these days so I am taking the plunge to learn a bit more about REI to hopefully someday (soon) make a leap and fulfill a dream.My experience is limited to a few books, some great reads here on the BP forums, growing up in a DIY family (so I am pretty confident in basic carpentry), and priding myself with common sense.

Remember, at the end of this venture, it is only about money.

We would love to grow our own real estate investing company that we could use as our main source of income once my husband finishes his active duty military service.