Hello again, I will first say how happy I am to have found this site, in my year+ of researching I have found 3 types of sources of information; people who claim to known(and may or may not really know) what they are talking and request a small fortune to share their knowledge; people who...

Thanks for the suggestion Anetta, I may consider that also. I am going to try to get away with not getting the new job and focusing on flips. But this will only be my route if I can get a couple flips done before I am laid off. I have 5 months and a couple private lenders on board so it is just...

Thanks for the replies so far, I appreciate the input and suggestions. As someone guessed, the departure from my job is not one of my choice. I was actually supposed to be laid off in July, but it has now been pushed to October. Once I found out I was getting laid off is when I really started...

Hi there, I am relative new comer to REI as a profession, but have been reading up on it for years. I am now 6-10 months away from being out of a day job and starting to focus on REI as that is what I intend to do from here on out. Our (my wife and I) current situation is that we own our...

Thank you all very much for your input and suggestions. I have checked comparable in the neighborhood and feel the house could list at around $170,000, but I want it to move quick. In fact there is house directly behind my house, which is about 75% the size of my house which went on the market...

Hi there, I have been kicking around the idea of real estate investing for a couple of years now, reading different books off and on and finally decided to take the leap within the last few weeks. I did place an offer on a bank repo but the deal fell through after getting a quote from a...