I have reached a point, however, where I need to stop lurking and start acting.My name is Jon Ignatowski, I grew up in Rochester, NY, and graduated from St.

I sold for a great profit post graduation and that is what got me started in real estate investing.

Close to schools, parks, shopping and has easy freeway access.Long term tenants are good, although we may plan to raise the rents.

Not always some will sell prehab but those deals usually come with bonus equity to mitigate the lack of revenue at close.there is two schools of thought on this and I have seen this be very successful as well .. but more caution is needed on the company you do this with they need to be very good and reputable of course.Other course of action is to simply buy off the MLS and do the work for yourself.. this is an extreme challenge from afar...

I had a rehabbed house in a nice neighborhood, however the school district my house is in was less than desirable.Depending on property blast's database, you may have better results that I did. 

If you subscribe to the Jefferson Lily school of thought on mobile home investing (which I do) you should never pay more than a couple of grand for a home, regardless of condition.

The benefit of being an agent is that beside going to school for real estate finance or an MBA its the fastest, inexpensive way to get in the business and make money. 

You want to look for areas with good schools, low crime and that are growing in population and have jobs coming in.

It seems a bit old school but it works.

.- Buy in good school districts.