Eventually, we decided to buy our home where we would raise our kids and grow old.We debated on selling the tri-level, but decided to rent it since we already had the house and we would not walk away with much cash.

Remember, you have to pay for land, const. costs, soft costs, interest carry on your loan, permit and development impact fees, your profit, and fit that all into 120k per door on the unit sale (BTW, 120k per unit walking distance from Chesapeake Bay sounds cheap, but I'm not familiar with the market).2.

He wasn't really using lenders last year, but has now started to in order to grow more quickly. 

Since you're currently in PA you might also benefit from looking into DIG (Diversified Investors Group if I remember correctly.

So far all my properties I found have been thru MLS, but you’ll be amaze once you start growing and you earn credibility deals start coming to you..

I did a cash-out refi on a property 2 mos ago, took out $100K, then went house shopping in another state.I found a 3-property deal down south in a growing market.

Yes, you can expense the equipment under sec 179, but remember that you need to have taxable income (Not just cashflow but the income ) to take this deduction.And you are right, you have to recapture the sec179 depreciation not just when you sell it but also if the use of the asset goes below the 50% business use.

But I want to grow, learn and do more to create a reputable profile.

Here are is my advice if yo wanna try outHave a Professional website direct to the point REMEMBER first impression is the last impressionTry to create engaging content and share on your facebook pageUse a Professional profile picture and nice cover imageRun PPE ad and target your the group of people you wanna target, interest, as well as locationLet it run for few days make sure you add your facebook pixels in your website before you run ads that will allow you to track what happening and also add Google analytic to your websiteGet a designer to design nice ad image for you LESS TEXT MORE CREATIVE.Run it for few days and keep tracking the process and after few days start a retargeting ad as well with it so people who visited your website showed some interest and than left retarget them.Above tips were simple and to the point.

Oregon is 10 in the country for fewest defaults and highest credit of borrowers for homes.. wholesaling would be extremely hard without major budget and you defiantly need to be licensed to sell property you don't own.. state will get all over you if U try the tie it up put it on craigs list or have a website or blast e mails.. one complaint and your toast in that regard.. you need to have your financing lined up so you guy then resell.. flipping is alive and well.. but again much much bigger dollars involved than in GA ( at least most parts of GA... its like working the expensive parts of ATL price wise.although you can still flip in the high 200 to mid 300 range but there is virtually nothing at or under 100k to buy .. lots sell for 100k and over.. rural Oregon will have cheaper properties but much harder to sell with lack of buyers.. but one thing is for sure  if you do a nice job on a flip and price it right it will sell in 2 to 4 weeks at full price and you don't have to worry about folks getting loans and such.. this is not a credit challenged area like much of the deep southas for paid trainers there are good ones and there are tons just selling rehash of those that came before them remember there is not very much that's secret or knew in this industry other than tighter regulations and most guru's are not worried to much about tighter regulation as it cuts down on their conversion rates to the mentor programs as noted above.