page=1#p3749945https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/67/topics/624342-how-to-prepare-for-a-career-as-a-flipperhttps://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/55/topics/625011-new-to-wholesale-real-estateYou might also want to read: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide - https://assets2.biggerpockets.com/uploads/user_file/file_object/329/UBG_2018.pdf...actually the entire section: https://www.biggerpockets.com/guidesBP has a whole section dedicated to education and starting up - https://www.biggerpockets.com/intro-to-rei/overviewGet busy with the entire Education section on BP:https://www.biggerpockets.com/hubs/property-typeshttps://www.biggerpockets.com/hubs/financehttps://www.biggerpockets.com/hubs/strategyhttps://www.biggerpockets.com/hubs/finding-deals/analyze-dealshttps://www.biggerpockets.com/hubs/property-management (including TENANTS MAINTENANCE)https://www.biggerpockets.com/hubs/business-operations (and the sub section on REAL ESTATE MARKETING TOOLS & TECHNOLOGY TAXES & ACCOUNTING LEGAL TEAM)One way or another you will pay your "real estate tuition" - either in time, effort or money.

An average home and a cabin up north (popular amongst Michiganders), comfortable eating allowances and private school tuition for my children.

If you do this religiously for the next 60 days, please paypal me $10 for each pound you lose and I will use that to pay for my son's college tuition!

It was a bit of a gamble up front because I paid for it myself entirely while pretty much all of my classmates had tuition reimbursement through their employers (for instance, a few of my classmates worked for Disney,  who pay their full-time employees 75% of their education costs.

@Shiloh Lundahl college education, by far...The average, in state, college tuition is about $10k, so that's $40k for a bachelor's degree.Average lifetime earning (45 years) for a bachelor's degree holder vs.

You should also count the cost of tuition which I'm assuming is relatively minimal for community college (I assumed 5K).If you manage to come out of college with a 45K annual salary (21.63 per hour), the IRR on your investment into getting a college degree is 15%. 

Use that private school tuition money to invest in Real Estate. or Bitcoin?

I also have friends who couldn't go to the college that they wanted to or study the field that they wanted to because they couldn't afford tuition/living expenses while going to school.

There's be no Fed, and we'd still be on the gold standard, you'd shop for your own health care and it would be competitive, and tuition would costs would be within reach; on and on where the free market has been manipulated because "we" demanded it and then we blame capitalism when it doesn't work out the way "we" wished it did. 

Potentially consider it a tuition with a return.I think it largely comes down to what your goals are for RE.