The secret is to have some reserves behind you.

Also, scroll through the BiggerPockets podcasts and listen to 4-5 that are focused on how people got started or on specialists from various ways of investing—flipping, wholesaling, buy-and-hold.My concern with most seminars is that you'll learn a few tips, but then you'll be pressured into paying $1,000-10,000 for more education that will really teach you all the "tricks and secrets to massive success."

Surely there must be some secret magic sauce?

If you invest out of your neighborhood having a great on the ground team is the secret to getting the right area with the right returns

Lol (I am making that, and more, on my investments - the secret is that I don't have to worry about getting a bank's approval to do the deal since I buy off market, Subject To and this frees me up to do deals I wouldn't otherwise be able to do ;-)

And Real Estate Best Kept Secret is 'Get Educated Before You Buy!'

Intros like that definitely explain while software engineers secretly rule the world.Oh, yeah, as a matter of fact, I'm a pilot also... in my dreams!

It's no secret that real estate investing can be extremely lucrative and rewarding.

I am secretly getting a little panicky, but I sit tight.

But they may not, they may not want to share their secrets, and that's fine.