Successful investors - How did you get started in real estate?

[Salvatore Lentini]

Just putting this one out there because I know a lot of aspiring investors are searching for ways to get started.  How did you get started in real estate?  For me, I read a popular real estate book that motivated me but because of Analysis Paralysis, it took me another 9 years before I got started.  I started with wholesaling and after a while decided to keep one of my wholesale deals for myself.  So I started doing flips and after a while decided to start keeping them as rentals.  Then I scaled up from single families to multi families, then commercial and land development.  I LOVE it!  Well, some days are challenging but overall, real estate gets my brain going and I love the mix of long and short term benefits of this business.  I've also formed great relationships along the way.

What's your "origins" story?