Go down to McDonald's and order a single bag of McDonaldland cookies.

The auto racing franchise brings in tons of money every single year from extremely devoted followers, and who is their #1 sponsor?

Jon,In your response, it seems to only apply to deal concerning a single property.

Given the fact that I have no credit and no cash, how would you recommend that I get into the business, you seem very know knowledgable on the subject of Real Estate Investing.Honestly, I am in the same position as you are creedog - I started last summer, as a broke single mom, with a full time job that said me 9.00 per hour.

Hello everyone, I'm a new investor looking to learn more about duplexes and how they're different from single family homes.

I buy tons of deals from banks (almost exclusively) and in my area not a single one of those offers would fly, and I'm not in a hot area by far.

Single family homes were my first choice but I think I have the option of a 2-4 unit building.

I am knocking on every single door in the area2.

I need hard money for a single family fast!

I didn't read many of the posts in this thread but if I was just starting out and had $100,000 cash I'd go buy 2 4plexes putting $40,000 down on each one, have a prop. mgmt company run them, and then use the $20,000 as capital to start out buying single family houses.