Owner financing, conversion from a 2/1 to a 3/2, rapidly growing area of town, STR permit from Wilmington, creation of new partnership, so many things to love about this one.

After a few years of meeting every month the group continued to grow and I built relationships with some great people."

The time has come to start investing and I am eager to get my first small multifamily property under my belt in the Iowa City and Cedar Rapids area! 

(because you will most likely grow like Michael said).

If I can find a city that is growing in both areas then I would put that as a potential for further research. 3.Once i've created a list of areas that are of interest I then start looking at the average sale price for the location.

My goals with joining BiggerPockets is to grow my network in the Real Estate industry, and ultimately buy my first rental property/househack.

We did want acreage, although it's not our ideal locationAdvantages - enjoy the acreage, lock in the gains on our current home, let our income grow over the next few years and purchase a "dream" property in a more desirable location.I also believe this would increase our gains significantlyDisadvantages - maintaining acreage, cost of moving and getting a new home built or M/H setup, and having to move in a few more years.

Read self help, books on improving your personal skills, how to effectively understand what people want and what you want from them, your ability to communicate with the people you want to be more connected with starts with your EQ, of course rich dad poor dad is a great start, but having a good foundation in communication, and practicing it daily will help you grow, you can learn real estate anywhere, people skills is an in the trenches skill, start with smiling at strangers and getting smile back its the simplest form of an exchange.

These have generally been easy to do in part because interest rates kept getting lower, so there was benefit to refinancing even if you didn't want cash out.As interest rates creep up, the benefits of using HELOCs rather than refinances to tap new equity will grow, because investors won't want to increase the interest rates on their existing debt.

Every time real estate has come up over the last 3-4 years I get this deep excitement in me but never took the step to learn anymore, I really just hung onto what other people were doing and admired what they were building.Now that I have been listening to podcast, reading books, and telling people I am getting into real estate investing, the excitement grows and grows.