Discouraged but Staying Motivated

[Mark A.]

Its been about a year now when I decided to take a serious look into real estate investing. Stumbled upon this community and decided to dedicate my time outside of work to educating myself on this venture. At the beginning of this year I set my goal to close on my first property. Now I've set aside a solid amount of capital, about to take my exam for my RE license, started to build a small network, and about to send out my first letter from a small direct mailing list I made from driving around with property radar on. After countless hours of searching through MLS, driving for dollars, meeting with agents, going to department of planning; I'm fully realizing this is hard work and I have a lot of respect for those that have succeeded before me and for those in the trenches with me (fight on!). But at the same time I don't mind the grind. I know I'm just steps away from my first deal and although I'm feeling eager, I know hard work and patience will eventually pay off. Just wanted to vent and say to those who are feeling a bit discouraged as well to keep at it and I can't wait to read more success stories on the forums and one day be one of them!