My scenario is different.I am the commercial real estate broker and owner of my company.So I have my listings and buyer clients I work with which brings in a certain amount and then I have my own properties I purchase as an investor myself.As a broker once you have your own investments bringing in income you can pick and choose who you want as clients on the real estate brokerage side.It's empowering at a listing when the seller knows you are not DESPERATE for a listing and you are in demand.They want to choose you because you get results and not because you agree with everything they say.What anyone needs to start is relative to income coming in and family and life demands.For instance if someone has racked up 80,000 in credit card debt on stupid stuff they have nobody to blame but themselves.In my state of Georgia 30,000 a year isn't that bad as cost of living is really low.In some other states 30,000 would just last a few months.So that is how I run my business as I explained above.I try to train agents to help them out but I find they don't have the "fire in their belly" to change their lives.With investing you have to have a "whatever it takes" mentality.

The reason they did this was most of the tenant were paid weekly and if you waited to the end of the month they didn't have it as they bought booze, women whatever.

However there are spinoff groups that allow beginners, including a women's group.

Let's network and maybe start a women's group in MIchigan - would love to help with that.  

I've had a number of tenants, mostly women, who didn't want to go inside an apt building because the paint was faded and the outside not landscaped.

Nothing against my gender but if you are going to do student housing rent to women haha.

I was wondering if there is anything similar for women trying to break into real estate investing.I bought my primary residence this year and am house hacking it, but am hoping to buy my first true investment property in the next year or two.

@Lauren Reed and @Jackie Runals, will I see you at the next women's meetup?

They generally want to deal directly with a real person who is empowered to make decisions.

I have an empower retirement account through my employer in which the employer matches my investment to a certain percentage.