All good questions and many financial institutions vary in how they address your questions to some degree, but I'm a HELOC fanatic and all my income flows through one of these bad boys.

Did you get an advanced degree or learn a trade that is prized in society?

However - my life would take a complete 180 degree turn just a few days later.

As stated above, successful wholesalers are spending substantial degrees of money on monthly marketing.

I recently graduated with a bachelor degree in kinesiology, my plan is to eventually get my PT degree.

I graduated from the University of South Carolina with a degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2019 and currently work as a Land Development Engineer (EIT) with a global architecture, engineering and construction firm.

First, if you have a passion for investing in real estate but don't really want to make it your full-time job, then you should either go to university and get a degree in a field that interests you (having a job makes it much easier to access loans to finance deals) or start working straight away and join university in 3 or so years (many universities have a lot of 'older' student supports and discounts and this way you enter uni with an income). 

Area often get frequent highs over 100 degrees in summer and soil not the best.

ConclusionWith real estate, you can enjoy passive returns for years to come, benefit from steady appreciation and have a high degree of leverage.

Many times you need to be accredited. but there are crowdfunding deals that you can get into with varying degrees of entry.