Columbus has been booming with population and job growth, plus huge developments from Intel, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Honda, and LG.

Even if you start by buying in your own name and later transfer ownership to your LLC, the structure will help you stay organized and better prepared for financing future investments.Remember: real estate investing isn’t just about buying properties — it’s about building long-term wealth, creating options, and developing the confidence to manage your own portfolio.

What this means is that the entire development was started under the builder, and had hoped to sell to the ones in house, but they only chose to buy part of them.

@Austin Fowler I recently reviewed a 24-unit multi-family development in Miami with a 2 year hold period.

I'd choose a good market that is landlord friendly, has a ton of tech development going on, and find a good investor agent that can send you offmarket deals. 

You can literally start by telling AI to "Create an Application to allow my tenants to pay rent online" or "Create an App that keeps track of my tenants and leases" or "Create a listing page for this apartment, with attached images"At first I was an AI non-believer, but for smaller software development, it's definitely worth a try.Hope this helpsGeorge

I’m focusing on building knowledge now—underwriting, analyzing markets, understanding financing, and learning the basics of buy-and-hold and wholesaling.For those of you who started early or wish you had, what skills or habits would you recommend someone my age develop right now?

Also you should market to both builder-developers and investors.

Ton of tech development with massive companies investing and supporting job growth.

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