And regardless of when you start, you never have to worry about being forced to liquidate a portion of your portfolio per IRS guidelines. :)  

You would be paid a portion of the commissions that you can bring into the brokerage.

hi there, Im feeling a little discouraged as to i just failed the Ohio real estate national exam for the third time this previous Saturday.I past the state portion btw....

I also ended up buying flipping houses by J Scott, and a few others, the first real estate book i read was J Scott's book on flipping homes..incredible read, then i read Rich dad, poor dad this book is now in my top 3 favorite books, an wholesaling book, and currently 200 some pages into the millionaire real estate investor, my wheels are already spinning out how i can put my tech skills to work on a personel website for automating some of the marketing, network, and prospecting portion. 

i do intend to keep for the foreseeable future since i utilize a portion of the properties in my business.

@Justin Ellis,  for me it about having a balanced portfolio; I want half my investable assets in high interest mortgage notes, and the other half in physical real estate leveraged 50%, so that if I have $2 million in notes I want $4 million in real estate, with that real estate having a 50% Loan ratio, bringing the net equity for the real property portion to $2 million.The reason is that with $4 million in gross real property holdings, my entire portfolio equity of $2 million in notes plus $2 million equity in real property is hedged for inflation.  

The problem isn’t with the particular lender as I like my LO’s, but the trick is their company only has certain loan products and shopping around is vital.  

Having another portion of cash in reserve for when a good opportunity arises sounds great.

I am stuck on the Refi portion as I'm having a hard time finding a bank that will do a fixed rate 15 yr cash out refi with the home being in an LLC.  

I recently moved (last week,) over a portion of an existing IRRA over to a SDRA.