I was running my own company in the music industry for the last 12 years where I was fortunate and disciplined enough to build up some savings to have as working capital knowing one day I would go into REI.I started my music company at 22 years old and was able to build a pretty well known brand in my field.I got burned out and lost my passion for it and decided a year ago it was time to move on to real estate.I'm still young enough and naive enough to think I can build an even bigger business in REI and eventually scale my way up to having a large portfolio of SFH's and MFR's. 

I had that property rented right away last year, but my agent was there for all showings and I would leave the house with zen music and essential oils which is what led us to our quick discussion.

These days, I don't usually see or hear commercials since I typically listen to my music via Spotify and have no cable TV, but I did happen to have the radio on and heard an interesting ad.

A lot of exciting things are happening : the film and music industry is booming and land is cheap..er.

While it sounds crazy to anyone with a logical mind, the market hitting all time highs every day (kind of like how a casino slot machine blinks and blasts music at you - thanks CNN and Fox!)

My name is AC Cara from Stockton, California and looking to achieve financial freedom via buy-and-hold rentals to allow me to spend more quality time with my family, travel, pursue music production and learn the best way to build wealth.I’m currently in the daily grind of job/life unbalance and after hitting midlife and then waking up from gliding through life unconsciously and misguidedly, I now understand what is most valuable, time; Time to fully live life as it was meant to with family and pursuing Gods purpose for me.

Melody Dodderer, Addison Travis, Bo Baker, Dan G., Jacob Evans, Kalin Stocker, David Walker, Rance Brown, Patrick Kendrick

I'm a sucker for knowledge and I'm fascinated by Real Estate, it's amazing how much knowledge is gather here in Bigpockets, I haven't quite started in the forums yet and the reason for that is that before I go into the forums and start asking 100 questions like most newbies do I decided to go all the way to podcast#1 and just start listening one by one in order educating myself, until I eventually catch up with the current podcast, I don't watch tv or listen to music anymore instead I listen to podcasts from BP, I try to listen from 3 to 5 podcast a day and it's been amazing, it's like every question that I have or I could have about real estate I find the answer in the podcasts, people always ask try to find mentors but what they don't realize is that every person that is in the podcast is a mentor and you get tips from hundreds of different mentors just by listening the podcasts, in essence Biggerpockets podcast is a mentor full of knowledge and the best thing is that is free and real, not like those  get rich quick "gurus" It's a lot catch up I started last week and now I'm in podcast#31, still learning from podcasts from 5 years ago, but it's all good not just because of the knowledge that I'm getting but also because it will give me an idea of how the market had changed in the past 5 years and figure out where is it heading.I want to thank Josh and Brandom for creating this and all the members that support this community and are making this posible.

Creeping around the forums and choosing podcasts over music for a month now just feels like too much take and not enough give.

On the other hand, Claude Debussy said "Music is the space between the notes".