One of the best things you can add on to your books and podcasts are real estate investor meetups in your area.

Quote from @Ragan Manning: Hey Nicholas,I am the owner of Manning Your Books and I work exclusively with REI clients.

The Long-Distance Real Estate Investing book is a great one to get the lay of the land on doing it from afar, but getting on-site experience will also be important in your journey.

The ability to do what you want, when you want, and have money coming in to support that.Things to work on: savings, credit, going to local real estate meetups, listening to podcasts, reading books.

As for books, here are my favorite rookie recommendations:Set for Life!

Any other books that would be great education to start them out with?

I'm an open book and I'm happy to share, or even just answer general questions.Also if you do end up selling the properties, please shoot them my way.

It's a great book about how he became debt-free and started investing in house hacks.

Some do 200k a year or more.No way will I believe that unless someone shows me their audited books.

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