It has been suggested to me numerous times that gathering your team prior to acquiring any real estate is essential to success.I would like to start going out and meeting with accountants in my area so that I may start this process, but I have no idea how it works.

Hello Michael, I think with so many ways to get started in investing you're bound to find numerous opinions on what is "the best" place to start.What are your mentors telling you?

Lastly, I took back a few properties a few years back in my volatile markets that I was ok selling on the cheap because my health at the time didn't justify the energy to rehab and retail them to non-existent buyers.All lead to reasons why you can only establish a criteria as a buyer and try to stay within it.

Hi @ art warren. welcome to bp where i have found a wealth of information and tips thru the podcast and many of the conversations in the posts. i too have a full time job in the federal criminal justice field and enjoy rehabs, upgrades, etc on homes. and i also know several guys who work for at bush int airport parttime for the flight and health benefits and held down a full time job working with me at the post office on the north side many years ago. now i am kicking myself for not doing the same back then or else i would also be retiring from continental/united also. well good luck and see you in another post.

I was on the computer all day everyday and started really looking onto real estate.We have bough and sold numerous properties in the last 4 years.

He has mentioned the carpets to me numerous times and I have noticed that there are more runs than there were initially (mind you while I was building storage units in the basement I could hear the dogs running back and forth and skidding on the carpets for hours).

See, I had just had my daughter and realized that while life was good now (family in good health, making good money), my family's income was by no means "secure" because I had to wake up and still go to work every day.

Whats the HOA's financial health?

I can bank 50K rather quickly with this job.This is actually a big risk for me as I would lose the disability money (which I want to) and there is still some health uncertainty and the job is across the country.I owe about $40K on the house and could probably sell or remortgage for $80--90.You may be wondering about these numbers.

Currently I am laid off but getting tons of offers so will not be for long due to numerous offers.