Real estate seems to be one of the best (if not the best) vehicles to pursue and obtain that goal of becoming financially free earlier in life.  

You will also see these signs on vehicles as you drive in your city or area, write these phone numbers down in a page, and transfer them into your MS Excel sheet ASAP.There are more ways, good luck.  

Cutting expenses, paying off debt, got rid of financed vehicles for older paid off ones.

Car Registration: A $40k vehicle will run you about $360 per year to register.

You have a lot more control over your assets vs other investment vehicles.

Depends on the loan vehicle you are using and the loan appraisal of the property. 

There is also a good stock of large distressed homes lend themselves well to SFH-to-appartment conversions if you're up for a project.Hamden is another neighborhood that sees a lot demand but still hasn't become over-gentrified to the point of making it nearly impossible to find investor friendly opportunities.My final recommendation is Reservoir Hill.  

what you need to do then....is to figure out what your maximum is to be profitable.....aka, what a house is worth given what condition it could be in (which you will more than likely will not know), your costs to foreclose/take possession, your costs to sell, etc.....all your costs must be figured out.....once you have the math, you know what your highest bid number is......you don't bid based off what others are willing to pay (a largely impossible number to know), you buy based off what you are willing to pay.

Almost impossible for 2% rule.

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