@Jayden Hamilton
This is the wrong way to go about things. Aside from the normal concerns of letting a stranger stay with you… business people are busy people or they’re done with being busy and value their freedom.
I understand what your goal is here, but a week in a stranger’s house isn’t going to teach you anything…
And though I know you don’t mean it this way, the request comes across as a bit creepy.
Do you really want to learn? Then you really need to put in work… probably without compensation. If I were you, I’d find people active in real estate and offer to work for them FOR FREE or for very minimal compensation.
Maybe they need help cleaning up a job site, writing letters, landscaping, posting bandit signs, sweeping the floor… maybe you just go and pick up their lunch and run errands every day. In return, you get to see how they operate, the nuances of the business, and you make connections. You have to give something. You have to be a hard worker. You can’t just ask questions, people get tired of that.
Sure there are people who ‘made it’ that may say “I’d like to give back, I’d like to mentor a young guy or gal”… but I promise you they’re going to look for the same traits in their mentee that they had- which, in part, was the willingness to work ungodly hours in order to learn and get ahead in life. At least at the beginning of their career.
It may not be an investor you do this with.. perhaps it’s a REALTOR, a contractor, etc. Don’t limit yourself.
All this probably means you need to work 40 hours a week to support yourself then moonlight another 40 hours to learn…. And you’ll likely have to do this for at least a couple years. That’s just how it is.
At all points in this process you should be reading everything to do with real estate, then business in general. Sprinkle in psychology, economics, accounting, etc. Don’t ask “what books”… read them all. Read one book (300+ pages) every week for the next year and you’ll be amazed at the results.
