I'm ready to put myself out there.A little about me: I'm a 25 year old teacher, eager to get into the real estate investing arena.

Does anyone have experiences with the Teacher Next Door or Good Neighbor Next Door Programs?

Schools as daycare, online programs as education Why not enhance education with online presentations and world class teachers?

It's like getting a pat on your head and a gold star on your paper from your teacher.

I sold the property to a teacher at the school for 187,000.

I am a teacher so I am under a repayment program where I only pay 10% of my net income for ten years and it is forgiven.

I love what Landed (www.landed.com) is doing, starting off with a focus on school teachers so they can afford to live in the districts where they teach.Something I'd love to do when I have the resources is establish rental properties that are affordable based on one's income across the board, e.g. rent NTE 25% of take-home pay (or 30% of gross monthly, or whatever makes the most sense).

The South Korean Teacher's Pension fund, or the entity managing your Roth IRA, or whatever, that buys the mortgage backed security wants the safe asset paying a steady ROI, but doesn't want to deal with consumers directly at the point of origination.

Economist Richard Thaler was awarded the Nobel Prize last year for articulating what my kindergarten teacher knew instinctively -- to encourage people to behave in a certain way, you add gold stars after their name to reward their good behavior.

IMO they have difficult jobs but what I tell my clients is that it's like substitute school teachers.... you don't know who you're going to get and you don't know what kind of mood they are going to be in.