Thanks for sharing and keep building your empire.

@Russell Brazil I am 75 so no empire building.

Think of it this way, suppose you started out and you build a small RE Empire which winds up being worth a $1 Million.Then, for no fault of your own, you got into a Car Accident and are no longer able to go through towards your Goal of $100 Million.Life happened, but you did your VERY BEST.

Keep it all liquid to build your real estate empire.

Building up a real estate empire is a fantastic idea in theory, but in practice unless you're incredibly lucky, you'll be better off putting it in some sort of truly passive investment, like Redfin stock.I believe MOST people here do not realize how problematic real estate investing can be, the degree to which luck plays, how little is truly within one's control, and how inefficient and illiquid the real estate market is. 

No worries, very welcome.I started wholesaling.. but honestly I didn't like it so I turned to flipping ASAP.Now we Hold properties... however we get way too many leads we simply ignore and that is obviously not very smart... so I am buidling up a serious wholesaling empire... we will go nationiwide really soon.But yes...Here is a stp by step on what to do.And know this.. although this doesn't make sense to you now, just trust me on this...1 Get a good website domain name.2.

These folks are imagineers that have a real estate empire in their own heads.Many folks that fill out the "Find a Lender" form just want to talk to someone for educational purposes and are not interested in actually purchasing a property.

To me, I would do it when the appreciation was so great that the tax penalty didn't matter, I was close enough to the end that I couldn't possibly outlive the principal plus anything generated, many of the tax benefits had expired (depreciation, for example), and that my heirs had no interest or intention of running the 'empire' when I was gone.  

My recommendations are "Rich Dad Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki, "The Book on Rental Property Investing" by Brandon Turner, "Build a Rental Property Empire" by Mark Ferguson and "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie. 

Forbes wrote an article in 2014 titled “The Biggest Reason For Income Inequality is Single Parenthood” siting empirical research.