Investing in real estate has the potential of being one of your best long term wealth building strategies. That said, you have to understand that it seldom works like you see on T.V. Although flippers do have the ability to make a nice short term profit provided the market conditions are right & their skill set is adequate, buy & hold is this authors preferred strategy. It goes without saying that we often hear about the success stories of the relative of family friend who‘s a real estate investors. However, we seldom hear how investors lost it all on one bad deal or how a tenant destroyed their unit & wiped out their profits for the last year. Those stores are equally as prevalent. As mentioned, we here at FH911 are bullish on real estate investing but it should not be rush or taken lightly. Our goal is to share our successes, failures & experience in hopes of cutting down your learning curve & to better prepare you for success. Here are 5 things that you should consider before finding your first investment property.