How I started out in Real Estate

It was 2013. Not that long ago. I didn't know anything about Real Estate. I could tell you the basics of a traditional mortgage having had a few already, but otherwise I knew nothing. Also take into account that my wife and I had just sold a business, headed south (thank goodness) and had zero idea what to do next in life.  I got up one morning (knew only the word foreclosure, nothing more) and happened to know of an attorney that posted listings. I got on their website and strangely, found a link to a house that was selling in 2 hours. I mapped it out, saw it was close-saw the opening bid-and said, "hey ya...babe? Do you mind if I go buy a house this morning?"...I have a good wife. She said she didn't care. 2 hours later and only one other guy showed up to bid on the house at the courthouse steps. He didn't go up much- and I won the bid. Less than 30 days later the remodel was done and the house was on the market. In less than 120 days from purchase to sale, we made over 35k on that house. Not bad for a guy that had no idea how real estate worked. But it's how I got started. And it was really stupid the way we bought that (no title searches, no tax searches, no history information or anything)...we just bought it! And since we did it 1x and it worked out, I figured we’d just keep doing it. And we have ever since.