Looking back to your old self, what advice would you give?

[Alexander Burkard]

Hey everyone!

My name is Alex Burkard, an aspiring real estate investor in the Mid-West. I'm just now stepping out of the planning stage, and into the action stage of real estate investing. I've done research, picked out my niche, and decided on a strategy, now I have to move forward into the unknown and couldn't be more happy or anxious at the same time. It feels like I'm at the top of a roller coaster about to leap down.

That being said, in my experience in other professionals I've held I always remember looking back at where I had begun, and where I am currently, reflecting on what I've learned and laughing at what I consider easy now that back then was the end of the world.

If you could go back and say one sentence of advice to your rookie investor self, what would it be? Why? 

[Todd Rasmussen]

Don't step over dollars to pick up quarters.