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I am a high school teacher, not a landlord.

My parents were teachers and never were able to give my brother and I much of what they would've liked for us to have.

I honestly would like to maybe be a school teacher or pastor.

I'm a teacher, and she works for a mortgage company.

In my experience with substitute teaching, I mainly did high school, and most of the time the teacher leaves work and you would just give it to the students to do and you can just research deals and analyze properties while you substitute.

Well - it wasn't... and he was the teacher/speaker.

It seems to be these wealthy people in the room are either teachers who teach you how to run/operate specific types of business or are involved with overseeing you operate and formulate the deals you put together since they would be providing the capital for you.

Yes having a mentor should prevent some growing pains, but those are the best teachers.

I just quit my job as a teacher and am building my real estate business... since I no longer have a W-2 job, I most likely will need to use a hard money lender, correct?