Pain is a great teacher.  

What programs or teachers are the ones you would not recommend?

Hello,I am a teacher for my job and have 2 duplexes now.

Brad Sumrock is another great teacher.

I did my pre-licensing classes online through TravTALKS, he is an extraordinary teacher and NC native in the Triangle area.

As teachers part of our philosophy of education is that while we are the teacher to our students we always take our place as students first learning from our students and anyone willing to share new knowledge — we don’t know what we don’t know so we remain curious, hungry as life long learners.

Good luck "By the way I believe you can succeed in both markets (high cash flow/low appreciation & low cash flow/high appreciation) but best odds are if you are intimate with the market."100% agreed and there are many ways to skin a cat (Sorry to the animal activists) hahaHaving the intimate market knowledge as you mention and an end goal will keep an investor on the path forward.Time is a beautiful teacher and will eventually reveal what strategy was best.Much success

I'm a teacher so I value my free time above all else (except for God and family, of course). 

In my case, it was the only way to get started, doing it part time because I didn't have the funds to go all in full time for a full year.I have always been a solo agent, so I struggled the first two years to get clients, if I would have joined a team I would have had to go full time but I would have been making less than what I was making as an elementary school teacher (70k) because teams take a good chunk of your commission.

The wife of the first couple above is a teacher.