Finishing up college & looking to start real estate investing

[James Melby]

Hi all,

I’m a senior graduating college in Maryland after this spring semester and I currently have a full time position at a financial advising firm making a modest $40k a year and have been able to save about $10k in cash since I started there 5 months ago.

I’m highly driven and have to be working, exercising, or playing golf constantly or I go crazy so I stumbled into real estate investing recently and read ‘rich dad poor dad’ and loved it so much that I convinced myself that I want to get myself into real estate investing but have little to no idea where to start.

I’m not sure if paying a gruesome amount of money for a mentor guru would be worth it or if BiggerPockets would supply me will all of the info I need. I’ve yet to decide if flipping homes or buying rental properties is the way I want to go, but I have a good family background in home renovation so I think I’ll be a good fit for either direction I go in.

My biggest questions are, where should I start? Are there some good books to read that would help me carve a path? Would a mentor be worth the money?

Thanks in advance,

Jp