Real Estate Course for Teenager

[Leeling Chew]

My 12th grade son just finished his SAT and he will have one month off from school in December. We are wondering if he should go ahead and sign up for a real estate course. Our family has a few rental properties but would like to invest more in the future. My son has interest in real estate investing as well but probably won't become an agent himself. Are there benefits for being an investor in the long run to have passed the real estate course? 

[Jacob St. Martin]

I would agree with Robin! I think an excellent place to start would be one of the BP webinars for beginners. If he finds that interesting he should read rich dad poor dad and rental property investing by brandon turner. Those books will help to develop the mindset needed to be successful in real estate as well as give a broad overview of different real estate investment tactics. During this time he should be spending at least a half an hour to an hour a day browsing zillow and analyzing deals to start building that muscle. Getting a real estate license is really only useful if you want to be an agent, which is not investing. However, if he is interested in being an agent that could be a good path to get immersed in the real estate world and to start building capital through commissions that can be placed into a property as soon as possible.