How I found my Real Estate investing mentor

[Andrew Angerer]

Happy new years everyone,

 I was recently fortunate enough to find my own real estate investing mentor, someone I work with at my W-2 job. Bob, who is a jack of all trades, is a deacon, owns an ostrich farm and has started a few clinical research labs in his life, also owns some rental properties. He had sold most of them when he reached retirement age, however he regrets this due to the fact that his 401k hasn't been holding up as well as he wanted.

  He has now mentioned that he wants to get back into the real estate game, and buy more properties later this year, which he agreed to have me come along to witness first hand how the whole process takes place. Additionally he has set me up with his real estate agent that is investor friendly and has started to send me potential properties to look at. 

 Now how did this all come about you may ask? Simply put, I told everyone I knew about my plans to start investing in real estate. I told my fiance, my friends, my parents, heck even people I met for the first time knew my plans. That's how it happened, I didn't hire anyone, or go to a fancy paid mentor program, I just told people, and one person just happened to be an expert at it. Instead of asking to pick his brain, rather I offered to help him with a tedious chore at work and we just got talking about real estate. At the end of it all, we both came out ahead, his task was done faster, and I got a bunch of new insight to real estate investing. After we were done, he said thanks for listening, showing me that he really does care about his investments and about helping others learn this.

People are willing, and want to help others, you just have to show that you are serious about something, then offer help or time to them to get the details. I hope this inspires some of you who are, like me new to the real estate investing world.