All Forum Posts by: Abigail Timbol

@Ian Kee yes! My hope is that getting my license will help me learn about the real estate business/value of properties. I definitely know it won’t make me a professional flipper! I’ll need more education to do that! :D

My plan, or at least the investment strategy that excites me most is house flipping. I don’t have a good enough credit score to get a traditional mortgage (my credit history is not very old) so I’m pretty certain my best bet at getting started will be by working with a private/hard money lender. I would love any advice/warnings of how to recognize and avoid scam money lenders. I’d also love to chat with any house flipping investors (or any investors really) in the Atlanta area as that will be where I am living/working. I’d love to chat through this app, or perhaps even buy you a cup of coffee as soon as I’m back in the Atlanta area! I highly value advice and wisdom from people further along in this journey!

@Ian Kee this is a very good point! I am actually planning on becoming licensed as a real estate salesperson!

@Shardae Young thank you so much! This step by step is so helpful!

@Dennis M. This makes a lot of sense! Thank you!

@Brian Mcmenamin thank you so much! Your wisdom and encouragement is very much so appreciated!

@Tamisha Abrams that’s so exciting! I’d love to keep in touch as you start the next step! Keep me posted?

@Brian Mcmenamin thank you! This is so encouraging! I have had a tendency in the past (I’ve had an entrepreneurial mind since I was younger) to jump into any idea I had head first, and it’s landed me in difficult situations. Luckily they were all small risks and so the loss wasn’t too severe. I just want to make sure I don’t rush this because I want to do it right. But I also don’t want my past failures to cause me to be too afraid to actually get started!

@Caleb Heimsoth thank you! I just feel like I need to make sure I’m very educated before I get started, but I don’t know how to know when I’m educated enough!

Hello everyone! I’m just starting to educate myself in real estate investing. It feels like there is so much I don’t know that I need to learn. It’s hard to know where to start. Then each topic seems to have so much content that I need to know that I fear not being able to understand it all! I’m planning on starting my real estate investing career either by finding a partner or using a hard money lender. But both prospects seem like there is so much information I need to know, and then there’s even more information I need to know for what happens after I find them. I don’t even know where to start here, or what I should be taking notes on, or what I should be researching. I guess I’m just overwhelmed in general. How did you overcome the overwhelming amount of information? What did you focus on when you were just getting started?