Kentucky firefighter mind blown by BP

[Glen Robinson]

Introduction I am Glen Robinson 34 from Owensboro, Kentucky. I have always been interested in real estate since high school but let college, getting married, joining military and so on get in the way of getting started. I also fell into the trap when speaking to fellow non investors that you need to be rich prior to investing in RE. Now out of the military I work as a DOD firefighter we work a 48hour on shift and 72hour off schedule. It is a great job with a solid salary and retirement, but I felt I wanted more and with 3 days off in the middle of the week I started a lawn service business knowing 0 about how to run a business. I am earning an extra $2500 a month working about 15 hours a week. The thing I have enjoyed the most is learning how to start/run a business doing invoices, marketing, networking, and interacting with the clients. So I have started to think bigger! While at work one night it hit me why don’t I look for a real estate pod cast maybe I can learn how to invest on my 1.5 hour commute. And then it happened I found BiggerPockets and randomly selected Podcast #228 and the guys were interviewing Meghan McMallum who was a former/retired early DOD firefighter. Holy sh*t I felt it was a sign from up above. That was 2 weeks ago today and I feel my life has turned upside down in a good way. I have now listened to 18 podcast and today enrolled using my GI Bill into an online college real estate program where I will earn $800 a month stipend while learning about real estate. I am going to save up my lawn service and GI Bill money up and have a goal to buy my first investment property at the start of 2018. I have totally immersed myself into BP, feeling a little overwhelmed but reading all the post listening to all the super successful people on this site is helping. Sorry for such a long intro but it has been therapeutic getting all these thoughts out. Been on Facebook since 06 and have made about 3 post lol.