Tell me the story of how you got into your first commercial property
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[{"id": "hnt1hwq", "text": "I got my start by buying a building in my small town-it was mixed commercial and residential. I had prior experience with residential but the commercial investment intrigued me as leases were longer and I needed more of a stable footing then as my ltv wasn\u2019t great. I actually lived upstairs before I saved up enough to get another place. 10/10 would recommend", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hnt3rx4", "text": "I run a wholesale and house flipping business and was getting a bit of burn out from it. I decided to activate activate my RE license to sale CRE. I was stilling running marketing for my flip business when a great commercial deal just so happened to show up. 14 unit retail plaza and was a killer deal. I didn\u2019t have anywhere near enough cash to take the deal down my self so I raised the majority of the capital from two partners and we close on it in 3 1/2 weeks\ud83d\udc4d\ud83c\udffd", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hnt5ku0", "text": "We sold our first residential purchase after owning for 7 years. Sold it, did a 1031E into a small apartment building out of state. Same boat as you, had 6 single families, and slowly moving all of the equity to apartments\u2026it is do-able!", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]