Mentor for a College Student

[Jacob Rowland]

I am a third-year student at UNC-Chapel Hill. I am recently involved with a small real estate tech startup in Durham, NC. I am hoping this experience to be professionally challenging and augmenting as it is my first formal introduction to the real estate business. My ultimate goal is to invest in real estate but I am having trouble gaining initial traction and identifying which steps will be the most instrumental in fulfilling this objective. I believe a mentor is what I truly am missing at this point because I tend to get so caught up in visualizing my end goal that I struggle to identify the requisite means and immediate actions that I should take to get me started on my investing journey. Similarly, I am curious as to whether a mentor should be in my immediate location or that a long-distance relationship would suffice.

Any advice and insight into the validity of my thought process would be much appreciated as well as the best practices I should be taking to find a great mentor!