I eventually converted that into an SD IRA, and ultimately into the SD 401 (k) plan we have today, along with my wife.

Chris R Chris give The Ultimate Guide to Grading Cleveland Neighborhoods a read.

Ultimately, Loan Officers have no control over whether or not a loan is sold post closing. 

These two elements often get overlooked in the excitement of deal-making, but they play a critical role in the long-term success and sustainability of your investment journey.A well-thought-out tax strategy helps ensure you're maximizing all available deductions, utilizing the most favorable tax structures, and ultimately keeping more of your hard-earned income.

However, we would like to continue learning and ultimately get started with short-term rentals.

Ultimately, the source of truth for whether you can have escrow cancelled will be your loan documents.

But people do have to ultimately be responsible for their investment decisions.

Some new investors like to blend: buy a couple of SFRs to learn the ropes hands-on, and also place a portion passively in a syndication to diversify.Bottom line: start small enough that you can learn safely, but keep your eyes on where you ultimately want to scale.

Looking into the BRRRR method and house flipping for shorter term less risky things to get my feet wet in renting but ultimately want to invest in longer term properties in the future and ideally get property managers to take over and have much more passive income.

I don't like CONDOs as an investment type because the CONDO association fee cuts into your profits and ultimately you lose control to the condo association committee and possible capital assessments that be leveraged on the CONDO owners.