Enormous help.  

Secondly, while there are people who specialize and are successful in any particular business niche, you must access your own strengths, weaknesses, likes and dislikes to arrive at an investment or business strategy that works for you, in your geographical area.While there are ways to buy property with no job and no credit history, your universe of potential deals just shrunk enormously.

Many "new investors" will consume enormous amounts of an agent's time and then either not be able to buy, or will buy through another agent.That means you'll want to get pre-approved for whatever kind of loan you'll use - and it needs to be a solid pre-approval. 

Hi all, I am new to real estate investing. I have been doing a lot of research and I am serious about starting my real estate profile. I have >200,000 in student loan debt because I went to pharmacy school. But I d...

That's what I thought too.Just the temporary effect of Covid 19 and its devastating short term effect on small business is shown everyday on TV, people might lose the big picture of the enormous effect of monetary policy of RE price.In 2009, when the recession hit, the short term effect was even more devastating.

I understand @Joel Owens perspective on NNN at the moment, and obviously he's got a lot more experience than the rest of us, but the point I meant to be making was that the downside risk here for any deal closing in the next month is enormous, certainly more than I think Joel's comments acknowledge, and I don't think anyone knows how to price in the prospect of 25% unemployment and 50% GDP declines, expert or not. 

In specific, it is enormously rewarding, fascinating, and engaging.

I am in it to learn and I get an enormous amount of good advice, helpful tips and personal inspiration from the blog and podcast in particular.

Although, I do think with the enormous population of renters that work in the entertainment/food industry may drop their leases come this fall.

After over 15 years I just have not found that strategy to be lucrative enough to justify the loss of time, the hassle, stress, and the enormous amount of effort.