16 year old getting into real estate

[Joel Siguaw]

Hello BiggerPockets users,

I am a 16 year old junior in high school who lives in a suburban neighborhood south of Seattle. As I have gotten into high school and really started to be aware of the world around me I can’t help but notice how broke most adults around me are and it’s sad that they focus all there time on working for someone else just to make enough to get by and they hardly even live there lives. As a high school student who’s had almost all there high school experiences and what’s supposed to be the best teen years of my life stripped away from covid and have barely just returned to school this year I don’t wanna get stuck into that life and live out the rest of it with no time or freedom to travel, explore and just live. I mean really why even be here just to work and die.

Getting back to why I’m writing this in the first place, recently over the past year I have been very intreated in the housing market, financial knowledge and personal growth topics. About a month ago I actually finished the first book (audio book) in my life which was quite an accomplishment for me and that book was rich dad poor dad. After really sitting down and listening to what the book had to say it showed me this was something I was really interested in. Houses in general have always interested me, sometimes when i’m bored i’ll spend time scrolling through Zillow just looking. Now I know this is something i’m interested in but obviously being 16 I can’t quite start yet, so one of the things I have tried are over the summer i got 2 friends to join me in starting a little landscaping business which did pretty well but once school came around they became to busy doing homework and not wanting to spend time on it. Which i’ve felt has always set me apart from my friends a bit they always talk about how important school is and learning which I agree that learnings important but that kinda of learning seems to do nothing for me. But for me i especially over the past few years have not been doing to good in school, I have a hard time sitting in a class room being told what to do and feeling trapped I wanna have the freedom to learn what I want and learn skills I can use in my future, I feel everything I’ve learned in school at this point is all the basics I really need to know to start off in life. I have no plans on going to collage and really am interested in getting my real estate license at 18 and starting there and eventually moving into owning my own rental properties and getting into stocks and investing and diversifying income which is what I have been seeing a lot of about in the research i’ve done myself. But to get there, I know I need to have a high school diploma which is something i’m honestly worried about, I moved a few times during freshman and sophomore year and didn’t go to school much and by the time I got back into going into school covid happened and we all got sent home where i didn’t do any school work cause it was such a drag and doing it at home was really hard for me when it was stuff i wasn't interested in and now i’m

behind credits and already worried about this year because I am just coming out of a quarantine from having covid which had absolutely zero affects on me and a lot of my peers so that honestly really is annoying how the staff and this state is treating school like a prison which comes back to another reason why I’m worried about this year because i don’t wanna be there at all like it’s just a sad depressing environment we don’t even get tables at lunch and are schools so crowded this year no ones social distance so idk how it makes sense. One thing i’ve been interested  about is a GED which I feel like people look down on but i’m not sure about all of the logistics of that so if anyone has anything to say about that, would be appreciated. Anyway little off topic but I felt like that’s really affecting my life and hope it gives a little insight to how it feels. If anyone has any advice for me on what to do from now until I can be a little more free and become an adult I would love to read what anyone on here has to say. 

Thank you for taking the time to read this!