I am a 51 year old educator from southern New Jersey, with a desire in becoming successful in REI, enough so to leave my current position in 4-5 years.On the advice of some of the forum "posters", I have read the "Rich Dad" series, and am looking to acquire one of the Carelton Sheets "No Down Payment" study guides, as well as continue to explore this site.

From there the rest is history.So absolutely that's the most important step to becoming filthy rich is to start to believe and tell yourself at least 100 times daily that "I am a multi millionaire real estate investor".

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Here are some books that I found very useful.All Americas real estate book- Its old, but it has a nice perspective.Real Estate Riches - Dolf deRoos.

The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is never let your success be controlled by someone else.I'd read Rich Dad years ago and had forgotten a lot of it - hence my poor decisions.

It sounds like a gold mine, but then everybody trying to sell anything is going to tell you that they can make you rich.

Why are you always trying this get rich quick stuff that never works?"

In the era of corportate downsizing, and very minimal job security, I cant think of a boss in the whole world, than me. 99% of all jobs are there to make someone else rich besides you.

However these days with the run ups being caused by people treating REI as the next (get rich quick/stock market/retirement fund/pick your investment) scheme, its starting to look like appreciation is truly no longer something we can rely on.

And if you do this you will almost be guaranteed to become rich.