Keeping A Full Time Job When Starting Out

[Ashleigh Rogers]

Hello Everyone,

Yesterday I had a meeting with Tomie Raines Realtor Inc in East Lansing. Everything went really well and the training manager informed me on the expenses of real estate training at the company, prior to actually taking the class to get my real estate license and all. I was actually taken aback at the price initially, but I digress.

I wanted to ask you all if any of you have kept a full time job while still investing in real estate. It seems that based on the interview from yesterday, it would be wise for me to keep my full time job until I am able to pursue real estate full time. Has this been possible for anyone?

[Jon Holdman]

What is it you're trying to do and what sort of training is this? Lots and lots of expensive gurus in this business. Don't spend any money any of these classes until you've done some significant investigation on your own. Especially reading here. There are no secrets. There are lots of "educators" who prey on folks who want quick and easy riches.

For most of us real estate is just one form of investment. An alternative to stocks, bonds, bank CDs, gold or whatever. Its an investment, not a job.

There are real estate jobs. Most folks who say they want to do real estate investing full time aren't investing at all. They're working a real estate job. Many real estate jobs are commissioned sales. You have to close deals to earn any money. Some require significant up front investment of cash to do the job. There is absolutely nothing wrong with a real estate related job. But you don't have to spend 10's of thousands of dollars to learn to do them.