Louis, MO and have been living in Tampa since October.I have always been exposed to real estate growing up as my father does some buy/hold, but primarily flipping - I just wish I took the free experience more and applied it to my studies at school.

I am actually planning to spend the rest of this year through December studying and forming a better understanding of the industry and terms, etc.

I am studying finance and currently interning with a property management company in my college town.

You must read, study, and think to get the most benifit. 

2008 was a unique event and if you study the data 2000 to 2007 you can see the bubble building very clearly - an abunadance of cheap new construction led to oversupply fueled by extremely scetchy lending.Even though we started new construction back up in 2017/18 we are still not at former production levels and it will take us about a decade to fill in the void we have from almost ten years of no new construction following the crash of 2008.Also, real estate is relativley cheap, at least in Milwaukee.

He knows it’s not the best way to utilize his income, so he’s open to other ideas.I have been studying hard to help him convert his portfolio into MFH and to buy more apartments to get better returns using the bank to leverage his money.

I just have to check with my clients as some are more private than others.Example some will do a video testimonial for me, some picture testimonial, other will allow a case study, others will not do any of that but happy to talk over the phone as a reference, and others won't do anything.

I’ve been weighing out options after studying real estate investing for the past year or so and was curious if I could get some opinions.

Hello All,After saving and studying for over 2 years, I have been able to come up with $15k for RE investing. 

Make sure you study up and ideally find someone doing what you want to do where you want to do it and learn from them to mitigate your risk.