Your goals may not be like anyone else’s but they’re still your goals. Whatever it is that you’ve set for yourself by investing in real estate is a path that you direct--and everything you do with regard to real estate should help you move along your path, not divert from it. Investors can be young, old, rich, not-so-rich, in retirement or soon will be, a risk taker or risk adverse. Whoever you are determines how you will achieve your real estate investment goals. The strategy you select can change and evolve. You may start with a simple buy and hold strategy and move onto flipping as your knowledge and confidence grows. Alternatively you may start in wholesaling to gain some purchasing power to move toward a buy and hold path creating constant cash flow and financial independence. Let’s look at a bunch of simple scenarios as to who bought what, where and why.