The Best Way To Start Investing Is Just Doing It

[Stephen Barton]

Sometimes we get hung up on should we, could we, or how do we get into real estate investing. For me, the best way was to simply just get started. I am by no means an expert but I have done a few deals now. I have seen the one character trait that separates the winners from those who never get started is- drive! Or maybe it is Passion. I feel that I have both. You need one of those to get you out of your head and into the game. You are going to make mistakes. You might lose some money but hopefully it pale's in comparison to what you are able to accomplish.

I have seen a few investors come my way who were really- I mean really smart people. They had all of the tools necessary to do deals but they just lacked that ability to say: "Hey, I don't know if this is going to work. But I have analyzed this deal 100 times and if it fails it will just be a learning lesson". They just could not pull the trigger. I admit it is not easy. Take your own hard-earned cash and pile it onto a home that you have absolutely no intention of ever living in. It can be scary. But, hopefully you have built a team around you who is guiding you throughout the process. By myself, I have done nothing. But because I have been blessed to be around so many amazing people -I have had some great successes in my career. Not because I am so amazing (yeah right!) but because I trusted in those who I looked up to and who I trusted for advice. 

You are never going to get anywhere unless you start somewhere. I had to start with $500 cash that my wife and I had saved up to get started. We would have never dreamed where this journey was going to take us, and where it is still taking us. But we love the journey. We found others that we now love who share that journey with us. Just the relationships that we have had makes it all worth it. We love the people we have worked with and consider some good friends. You are not going to achieve your dreams analyzing a deal to death. If it is a deal -then, it is a deal! Do it! If it doesn't work out. Then, try it again. Keep going until you get that first deal to go through. It is all worth it once you get past that initial shock of getting started. You too can do this!