All Forum Posts by: Melissa Duffield

Thank you both for responding and with such helpful information. 

Nancy- your answer blew me away! I appreciate the details and extremely valuable information you put into your response! Reading your response has helped my greatly. It also set in stone how much I have to learn and educate myself on but better that I do that now as opposed to when I own a property and realize how ill-equipped I am.

Many thanks Nancy! You rock!!!

Hello,

I am new to this site and wanting to begin my journey into real estate investing. I am currently a business owner and in order to prepare myself for that I made sure to self educate in areas from marketing, retail, customer service, etc. 

I am wondering what areas would be good to self educate before diving into real estate investing? I am thinking of doing a refresher course in Quickbooks so I can manage my accounting on my own. What about getting my realtor license to avoid all the closing costs? I want to be very hands on (minus some of the handyman jobs).

What skills do the seasoned investors have that they swear by and which did they wish they had when they first started off? Where should I focus my education for the next few months? 

Thank you!