That being said, are there any go-to audiobooks that could be a great introduction?

A call is a great introduction.

Living in a duplex while renting out the other side is a great introduction to real estate investments and also offsetting the ever increasing cost of living in Austin.

Thank you for the great introduction happy to network and assist.

I recently graduated college and started my career as a mechanical engineer and have recently decided that while I love my job I don't want to work for the rest of my life, and real estate investing makes the most sense to me in order to gain financial freedom before I turn 60.I have been reading a ton of real estate books and discovered the bigger pockets book on rental property investing which gave me a great introduction to all the topics and possibilities in real estate.

@Jonathan Roszkowski welcome to BP and thanks for sharing such a great introduction about yourself!

It seemed promising at the beginning..great introductions, phone chats, professionalism on both sides... and then seemed demotivated to work with you, or un-responsive (only after) they know what your strategy is and what your offers look like.

Not to pick on my own profession as an RE Agent but taking the real estate course, which is a great introduction to the subject, will only get you to undertsand how to sell or buy for others...not neccessarily for yourself.And by all means...ask as many questions as people have the interest in answering :wink:

Sounded to me like a guy who had been around and who carried on a good business approach to RE multi-family.RE is a business, if you're business minded, an astute student of business, you'll find the podcast a great introduction into the business.What was not explained was the interpretation of the business, the demographics and drilling down to the street level of the project which is absolutely the key to multi-family housing.

Welcome to BP Jim,A great introduction and I like your goals as they are very similar to mine!