If you are willing to hustle 12 hours a day in the real estate industry to build your thing, then good for you - you'll probably make way more money in a few years if you can hustle like an entrepreneur and build your empire full-time.

I am also from the Inland Empire and started investing early (Age of 18).

Once we realized we were good, we used that emergency money to buy our first investment property and off we started babsytepping our way to our current empire ;)The key is just to have a plan and work it.

While's he's not working on building out his Real Estate empire with the earnings, he is building a life that he wants to live.

In the beginning we found that having a higher loan penalized us since we were empire builders.

We can grow it into an empire buy selling and leveraging for more eventually retiring off the cash flow.

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Every extra penny went into our investment and we worked our way through our baby steps creating an empire.

Is there going to be a meetup in the inland empire?

I grew up near your location - or at least spend most of my teen years in the inland empire - between San Bernardino , Rialto , and Highland.