Getting Educated enough to DO SOMETHING

[Heather Harrison]

Hello everyone,

I have been educating myself through audio books, and REIA meetings for about a year now, but still feel like I do not know enough to really GET STARTED.

As a stay at home mom to a highly needy toddler, with a husband who works 80 hours a week.. I have very limited time to take the initial leap into completing my first deal. I evaluate deals for a few hours a day for a local, seasoned investor in the area, but that is not the big payout I was hoping for when I decided that Real Estate was the avenue I wanted to go.

Does anyone have any recommendations or advice for how I might educate myself more quickly or more effectively? I feel as though I understand A LOT more than some other newbies that I see already doing deals... and yet, I feel like I don't know EXACTLY how to begin, Any advice, anecdotes, suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 

Happy Investing!

Heather 

[JD Martin]

Question 1: When you say "get started", what arena do you want to get started in? Do you want to rent out properties? Flip properties? Provide seed money to others? Build from scratch? Work in some capacity in the industry?

As the Cheshire Cat said, "If you don't know where you are going, it doesn't much matter which way you go". Until you make some kind of decision on what strikes your fancy, it's impossible to get any useful advice.