All Forum Posts by: Carlos Pringle

Hi everyone!

Does anyone in the Kansas City area or midwest for that matter know of a great online course designed to help obtain a real estate license? Also, I would like to get the "sales person" pre liscense, but I'm not sure whether that is suffcient alone for getting a lisense in Kansas, or if more is needed. I've checked a few sites, but haven't come to any helpful conclusions. Any tips or helpful guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

Hey everyone, I appreciate your input and foresight! There are alot of good valid points to your responses and I appreciate it. I also appreciate you all taking the time to read my post. Your responses have been encouraging and informative!

I think the pieces to the puzzle will start to come together, once I get some prior things worked out. Robert and Holly, I definitely agree with you 100%. I've taken the steps to understand and get a hold of my finances. 90% of the debt I have is racked up in student loans. It is managable, but it will definitely make getting loans at this point very hard.

Steven, I really like your advice. I don't know why I hadn't thought of that before, but it definitely makes alot of good sense. I think thats something I'll think about before I head back home.

Ron, I think you really hit on what I was thinking. I know there would be a cost to getting my real-estate liscense, but I also felt that that would allow me to simply get into selling homes as the middle man. Although I wouldn't own the home, I could at least learn the buisness with my risk already defined. I am in the military, but I'm from Kansas. However, i'll definitely check for these benefits in my area of operations.

Thank you all for your input and your time, because it has helped a ton! I would still like to leave the disscussion open, because as they say, there is always something more to learn! So if your reading this forum, please feel free to add your input on the subject!

Thank you!

Over the past few months i've spent a long amount of time pouring over blogs, forums and books related to real estate investing. In as much, i've come to the conclusion that real-estate investing is probably one of the most solid investing methods to date, and now I have a problem. Well, I wouldn't honestly call it a problem but I need some much needed direction and guidance. I would like to get into real-estate with-in a couple of months-almost a 5 month timeframe here, and I figured the best way to get my feet wet would be to obtain a real-estate liscense. ?

Right now, I really don't have much capital and my debt to income ratio is horrible-which would make applying for and obtaining home loans next to impossible. That is... unless I could win the lotto and could show the bank $100,000 in my account, which probably won't happen either. On the otherhand, I figured that that lisencse would enable me to work directly with the proffesionals, and understand the buisness alittle more. At this point, I feel the best way for me to get anywhere would be in selling homes first and taking commission from the sale as a real estate agent.

What are your thoughts? Do you think this is the best way for a person to get started in real-estate? If you do, what advice could you give to help a young person like myself-or others? More importantly, what were your experiences like? What types of obstacles did you face, and how did you overcome them? I'd like to hear your wisdom, so that I myself can be succesful, and avoid any major pitfalls in the future!

Thanks for the warm welcome! I'll definitely be checking these resources out!

Good to go, Thank you!

Hi everyone,

I figured I'd introduce myself. My name is Carlos Pringle, i'm 27 and am currently serving my last year in the Marine Corp Reserves on deployment. I'm ultimately looking forward to moving on afterwards and beginning to invest in real estate. I do have a bachelors degree in history, but was unable to complete my masters. Like many I've got a lot of things to work out. I'm honestly on this website to gain some solid input and guidance. As of now my experience with RE is zero, so I hope to learn a lot. Although I do have some investment ideas, I simply need to know if my plans are viable, or whether i'm thinking way over my head.

I do plan on purchasing my first home using my VA loan. however, In the distant future I would like to purchase and acquire single family/student rental properties. Can you all provide some insight as to how you got your start? Did you have to obtain a license? Did you incorporate your business with an LLC? Did you save to purchase your properties with cash? Or did you find other ways to raise capital? ect.

I have many other questions, but any helpful advice from a seasoned expert, Invester, landlord, real estate agent, ect., would be very much appreciated.

-Carlos