.), and you’ll have to do some continuing education for licensing compliance, then you might have some technology costs and some other costs I’m forgetting, of course vehicle maintenance and insurance and those types of things.

All good reading and listening, education is best and if you want to learn you have to ingest as much information as possible.I read many books that helped me, but my go-to is listeining to at least 2hrs of podcast with real examples per day.One very important things that "want-to-be" fails is to understand that real estate has many different specialities, so you have to focus your time in your real project.

I'm currently pre-approved but my lender gave me a "mid-level rate" which I believe isn't my actual rate since I haven't chosen a property but me not being as educated on the behalf and thinking it was my actual rate I decided to rate shop a bit.

Still green, but thinking a good niche would be housing close to universities and colleges.My long-term goals in Real Estate are to eventually get in to commercial properties such as apartment complexes and office buildings.For the past two years I have been educating myself on Real Estate investment.

My recommendation is to see if you can work for a company in real estate or wholesaling that way you get training and education while getting paid 

Special thanks to Grayson Glaze, CRE, CCIM, CPM, JD for inviting me to speak about my collaboration with Alabama Center for Real Estate to make my educational materials available to UA’s 800+ real estate students; to Jack Kobus, president of the Student Real Estate Investment Fund for hosting this event; and to the many students who attended.

Making money in real estate is easy at times, without a real education it's not so easy. 

Quote from @Marcus Everett: Hey Everyone, Marcus here, relatively new to SW Missouri and looking to educate myself in the world of Real Estate investing.

I'm not super educated on the options.

The toughest part about starting an education program is knowing that I can't MAKE anyone successful.