There are many people out there that are more than happy to give you information including realtors and you need to develop as many of those relationships as you can in this business.

This could be a saddening post for someone that read some books and attended some course and got home and just waited on the fat checks to roll in.I have been very successful at several things in life and what I can add to this is like MikeOH say "hard work", but I think even more is: CONSISTENCY..dont stop not matter what anyone says if its something you wanna really do.

When William Jennings Bryan made his famous "cross of gold" speech in his 1896 presidential campaign, he was speaking on behalf of heavily mortgaged farmers whose debt burdens were growing ever larger in real terms, the result of a sustained deflation that followed America's post-Civil-War return to the gold standard.4 The financial distress of debtors can, in turn, increase the fragility of the nation's financial system--for example, by leading to a rapid increase in the share of bank loans that are delinquent or in default.

I'm going out on a limb and saying that if the government sent out a $38K check to every person in the US instead of doing these stupid bailouts that our economy would take off like a fat guy chasing a twinkie!

Plus you have to deal with counting on the buyer getting approved for financing...me I'd be happy with getting a nice fat option payment to start, and then if they can cash me out with traditional financing, all the better.Thoughts?

I am currently reading books and trying to learn all I can in a short period of time.

I have spent the past several months reading as much as I can in this forum and have learned some great insight.

Fat chance of that.

If I didn't think I could leverage the vast array of investment options available in an IRA and not in a 401, to beat, at best, the market averages of the mutual funds offered in my 401, I would be in your camp (401k, only 401k, nothing but a 401k, and all you can in the 401k) :wink:Ralph

So they are going to run out of options and lose the home to the park because of the big fat eviction they are going to get.