Soon to be college grad life plan

[DuRon Netsell]

I am about to graduate from the University of Missouri in less than 3 weeks. I have a pretty good idea of what i would like to do with my life from this point forward and would love some feedback.

I plan to begin this summer as either a real estate assistant or some type of work in home construction, maybe even possibly finding some work for a local RE investor. Once my lease is up here in Columbia, I plan to move to KC to be a real estate agent in order to network, learn the business, and learn to sell.

Sometime shortly, after moving to KC, i hope to begin flipping homes with a combo of buy/sell, buy/hold strategies. I hope to buy a foreclosure when i first move there to live in and to begin my rehab career with. I then plan to buy more houses and rehab them through 203k loans or something along those lines. Once i am successfully rehabbing homes on a consistent basis, i would like to begin buying or create businesses ( Property management, mold abatement, contruction, etc) in order to expand my portfolio and develop into a development company. Eventually, i would like to be renovating older urban homes/buildings into extremely green and efficient homes/apartments in new urbanist ( is that word?)type communities through out different cities.

So i guess my biggest question is what advice and tips can you give me to help for the beginning couple of months and years?
- I already plan on continuing to read as much as possible on here, as well as well as joining a local REI club in KC.

Also, what would be the best way for me to learn about the structure and fundamentals of houses? I would like to get a home construction job this summer but it seems to me that most of these jobs require an apprenticeship or certification. Are there books out there that will do an adequate job of teaching me what i need to learn about homes?

I also would love some opinions on the Kansas City market. I plan to start in Missouri and expand to Kansas sometime after getting a hang of things.

Any advice, criticisms, encouragements, or tips are so greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
DuRon