My goal is to be at FI stage with 4% withdrawal rate in 10-12 years.

Plenty to learn at all stages.

newbie here too. just wished to introduce myself. formerly from washington, dc, i'm just getting started in the staging arena in california and i'm looking to make some connections as well. thanks and sincerely, sydney

Keen to talk to hungry, passionate hustlers only with these job titles:  - realtors - contractors- lawyers (with experience in RE) - accountants (with experience in RE)- partners/co-founders - staging companies- property management companies Looking forward to talking. 

What neighborhoods in each area below have not hit the appreciation stage and would still be good investments?

newbie here too. just wished to introduce myself. formerly from washington, dc, i'm just getting started in the staging arena in california and i'm looking to make some connections as well. thanks and sincerely, sydney

I raise a fund of lets use $5 million.I retain 20% ownershipI pay myself a management fee of 2% of the total capital so $100k/year.I lend out funds to early stage development projects for a preferred interest rate, short term plus equity in the project.I can help you with this if you want.I'm currently putting together a few funds as we speak.

With a smaller downpayment, we likely could’ve pushed that projected return to 10+% but we want more margin-for-error.As I mentioned by partner would like to retire in 10-years and they don’t need any cash return today so we’re going to apply all of the excess cash against the debt.

I've read some people go material diving for excess/unused materials at slab/appliance/cabinet yards but we don't have much of that (it seems) around North NJ and I work a full-time job so my time to scope material yards is somewhat limited.Where do you all go?

If it is clean-up, cosmetics, and the usual work, great, but there are a lot of surprises that could explain the low low price.Look me up when/if you get to the low income landlording stage, that's my niche.