Love your ambition. 

Hey @Thomas @Thomas BreilingCongrats to you for your ambition!

Noble ambition.  

Congrats on having the ambition and vision to start looking into real estate investing at such a young age, you are already light-years ahead of most of your peers.

A lot of that is luck, some skill, location, and ambition.

Of course, my ambition to become a serious investor makes me see opportunity everywhere and I find myself wanting to buy every opportunity I see, but I simply can't afford it yet.

Still reluctant on wanting to work a 9 to 5 minimum 40 hour a week salaried job and only working part time as a swim instructor I became really interested with real estate investing and immediately started fumbling threw books and online webinars and forums to gain as much knowledge as i could.Like you always hear, the second you start broadcasting your goals and ambitions to people, a lot of the things you need are already their and waiting for you to take.Fast forward to Dec. 13 and I had gotten a small team behind me ( loan officer(cousin), real estate agent(dad's friend), contractor) and i begun to scour the MLS looking for a home i could afford and figuring out the best way to do it.With little money upfront, me and my team had decided the best route for me was an FHA 3.5% down and owner occupy for a year.

$45k would be salary and $15k in variable pay (incentives).For that I think I could get a bright college grad interested in investing, ambition, integrity, willingness to take direction and do what was asked, tech skills, etc.

The first thing he told me was "you don't need money as long as you have ambition.

(I've read Rich Dad - Poor Dad)I've got long-term ambitions to develop a portfolio of residential rental units in Florida, the Caribbean, and Central America.