After a dozen years in the real estate investing business, one thing I have learned is that mistakes will be made. I made some pretty good ones when I first started out, and I am still making and learning from them today. Mistakes are a part of life and are something we all have to learn to deal with. Looking back over the years, I see that many of these mistakes were actually good things, as they taught valuable lessons and offered even more valuable experience.

Newbies to this business are unfortunately more prone to making mistakes simply because of their lack of experience. These mistakes can cost them a lot of money and put a bad taste in their mouths for real estate investing. I have seen more than one person make a serious mistake that they really are never able (or want) to recover from. Hopefully this post can save some of the newbies out there from making a serious mistake that kills their dreams of being a successful real estate investor. There are many types of mistakes that can be made, but in thinking about it, they seem to fall into six general categories.

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