New to real estate...looking for knowledge

[Christopher Hockenberry]

I am currently in the central Florida area and looking to get started in real estate. I am looking at trying to get into as many areas of investing as I can. I am looking for any knowledge to help me start out and do things correctly. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Josh Caldwell]

Hello Christopher,

I am a true real estate generalist, I do a little bit of everything.  When you start, you really need to settle into a single area of real estate and master that area.  The other avenues of real estate will quite literally fall into your lap as you work on that first mastery.  I usually suggest that people start with wholesaling.  At its core, wholesaling is the act of buying at price A and selling at a higher price.  The reality of real estate is that you will succeed at whatever type of real estate excites you the most.  It is sort of like picking a favorite flavor of ice cream, nobody can ever tell you that your favorite flavor is wrong.  The added bonus is that the more an area of real estate excites you, the easier it will be for you to study and master.  I personally love creative finance and marketing, so those are my two strongest areas, those two areas also play well into flipping, commercial, and every other aspect of real estate. 

to your future success

Josh