@Faris WrightTo succeed in real estate investing, consider online seminars and meet-ups like BiggerPockets, Udemy's Real Estate Investing for Beginners, Meetup.com, and REI Mastermind Network.

Builders and developers are increasingly turning to leasing as an alternative when they cannot sell homes at their desired price points.To succeed in this market, sellers need to be realistic about pricing and be prepared to make concessions.

Nothing better than people succeeding.

Go work in sales,No matter what industry you are in, if your a business leader and cannot sell, you wont succeed.

And for sure having sat through years and years of these events and talking to hundreds if not thousand students you can kind of tell who will do well and who probably does not have the chops to succeed..

I have seen clients succeed working with local banks, but it is a hit and miss.

And to reiterate bluntly: the "5-8 years" hyperbole cannot succeed, if you "invest that money" (that you're saving with this method, when opportunity presents itself - and, it will)!

I've seen investors succeed in doing this in Hocking Hills Ohio. 

So I tried and succeeded in alternative strategy; I started with smaller commercial multifamily deals that I could do myself.

Basically you are taking a chance on someone that knows nothing but hope they will succeed in getting a project done within budget and on time.