Since then I’ve been sharpening the axe of real estate knowledge, soaking in as much information as I can to ready up for my venture into real estate.

I definitely plan to visit to do better research and understand the local environment before jumping into a venture (or adventure).

So my relative perspective on multi-family, is that it is a much “easier” business to understand and lends itself to many operational advantages and predictability that can be systemized better than my other ventures...Nevertheless, I think constantly about the continued under-performance of my properties as I intended for them to be: buy-and-hold cash-flow investments.

The BNB is not a completely different animal, but I have not ventured outside my area.Thanks again for all the responses. 

Good luck on your venture. 

The NINJA loan period of the early 2000s attracted many new entrants into real estate (just as the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s attracted a lot of workers and venture capital into tech startups [remember pets.com and webvan.com]).

Hi @Brandon Sturgill Yes I agree :)  ...I am planning on venturing outside of my comfort zone and into some new territory thats all ...Thank you ....

I know I would not venture into this specific of a niche without advanced education and training.. to much to risk making a boo boo 

As for why I've chosen the path of becoming a CPA is purely for the early job security it can bring and I hope after a couple of years I will have enough capital to venture out and do REI full time.

Hi all, I am looking to begin my real estate ventures and have done a decent amount of research.