We would probably need more information from you to give any specific advise.
What's your current employment situation? Are you in your field of expertise? Do you like your job?
Why real estate? Is it because you makes lots of money and want to invest the money into a relatively secure asset that will appreciate, pays you dividend and provide tax benefit? Or are you at ground zero with no experience no cash and want to use real estate as a tool to build wealth? (based on the tone of your question, I'm gonna assume you are the ladder case).
Then what kind of personality do you have? Do you like to meet new people and befriends with everyone you meet? Or are you an introvert like to lock yourself in an office and review documents all day? If you have certain skill set but lack the other, are you confident enough in yourself in terms of motivation, learning capability to learn the new skills you need to become successful in the field you want to be?
Everyone who's successful in the real estate, or any kind of business, has a drive of doing what it takes to be successful or die trying. It's not even close to as easy as what you hear on the podcast or the courses they try to sell you. To some people, it might be easy to them because they have the natural skill set already so when they jump into real estate, they feel it's not that difficult. But to those people who lack those skills, they will think it's harder than climbing Mt. Everest. Everyone has strength and weaknesses, some has more strengths than weaknesses than others. But everyone who's successful has one common character trait, they play on their strength, they know their weaknesses, and they either improve on their weaknesses to bring the weakness up to standard or hire someone else who's great at their weakness to make it their strength. The ladder move requires capital. If you are starting out with no capital, then at least learn to bring every skill set you need up to the industry standard. Here are the skills you need in business:
1. marketing - people need to know what you do. If I give you a dollar, how effectively are you at converting that dollar into maximum exposure?
2. sales - convert people who know what you do to something that you can make money doing what you do. Now I brought you 1000 people's attention, how many people can you convert them into paid customers?
3. delivery - deliver the service/product you promised you'd do in the sales transaction. You made a promise to deliver the goods/service, can you actually fulfill your promise with speed, quality and least amount of pain?
4. customer relationship - keep your old customers. Does your customer think you are amazing and willing to tell their family/friends? Does your customer think you barely meet their expectation? Does your customer think you didn't meet their expectation and will never buy from you again? Does your customer think you suck so bad that they will tell other people to not buy from you?
5. account for what you do - accounting, legal, compliance. Did you actually make money legally from doing 1-4? If yes, is it enough to keep going?
This is applicable in business and real estate. If you look at this list and think man I don't know any of these, I'd recommend the best course of action is to look for the most successful people in the industry in your area and try your best to go work for them. This is if you have no money.
If you have a rich parent/rich spouse who's willing to sponsor your mistakes, a very high paying job that can sponsor your mistakes, or won the lottery and can afford mistakes, then you don't have to do the last step and keep doing what you think it's the right thing to do.
