While many of us investors (me included) want to think of ourselves as market and RE geniuses for doing so well in the last 8 years and recently inspiring a herd of new investors (speculators), let’s not forget what really happened. 1) We got lucky as most of were not playing brrrr and other stuff in 2005 - 2008.

lol A few things that really gave me some personal benefit and inspired ideas for me are: 1) "Work the system" - getting my processes and systems better established so I can grow my units under management and be efficient - with my real estate, and my life.

These books are all very good for inspiring and teaching to deal with people but, aside from the beginner's guide offered on this site, what would be some really good books to read in order to learn as much as possible about investing?

A lot of good connections, ideas exchanged, and some inspiration and motivation for the next deals..I'll be posting the date for the next monthly East Bay meetup for February on this forum, so "monitor" this forum (at the top of the page), and check in by Feb 1 to see the next date.

You will find inspiration on the Houzz app.

Your profile reminds me of some of Zig Ziglars talks, you should go onto You Tube and listen to some of them they will inspire you - further.

Inspiring stuff.

It's inspiring to see how well you have done with it.

Reading Brandon's blog has inspired me to do this in order to live rent free and profit in the long run.

Either way, great job and it's inspiring to see this being done around me!