Thank you for the kind words - at 75 years old now - I remember years ago when this I became motivated to invest in real estate (really -  my motivation was to make money and quick my low paying job)  I use to take every class and seminar on real estate investing and would read as much as I could all the time about real estate investing -  that is when I was 21 years old, some of the information was junk (seminars leaders trying to make money selling courses and useless information)  and some were really great, but at the time I didn't know what I didn't know, I finally got the nerve and courage to go out and try some of those crazy formulas they were talking about - and guess what - some of those far out creative financing techniques started to work for me - it was really scary because I started to make money - more money than I ever thought was possible with my limited formal education back than, I discovered I made more money than the president of the company I worked for - needless to say - I quit that job and devoted more time to making offers and collecting those large assignment fees - now even today at my age I continue to make offers - at this time the offers have lots of zeros in them ---- so all that good and useless education  paid off.You best teacher is the market - get out there and make offers, look at 50 houses - but don't make offers on those properties until you find the one deal that is absolute right for the profit making - just keep good records - listen to the sellers, do your comps, learn how to write "skinny contract offers", practice "Control and Roll" principals of controlling real estate with no money and assign your contracts using accelerated sales methods. 

However  you learn allot from teachers, evenmore from your peers, and the most you will learn is by teaching  other and by practice

I stumbled on bigger pockets while expanding my investor knowledge through my favorite teacher google. haha.  

Your biggest teacher will always be your last mistake :) No need to pay for what is out there!

My wife is a teacher by trade; she's had the tougher job of staying home with our small children the last several years while I have had it 'easy' working my day job (to note, my day job is pretty awesome, I work with some amazing people, and every day is a new and exciting challenge).  

I am helping him with a cheaper place to live and he is helping me pay some bills, splitting utilities and he helps with projects around the house.Aside from that, my girlfriend will be moving in as well, helping pay for other expenses.I'm a 2nd year teacher so I am not making a whole lot, but it is enough to pay the bills and save some. 

I'm a teacher at a local community college and I also attend college to obtain my second bachelors.

I know I'm going to jump in the pool regardless, but it's nice to have a life guard and teacher around to help me learn to swim. 

The only other teacher I know would be the Hard Knocks school none of us wish to attend.So, look first to books, and/or audiobooks!

Thanks @Charlie MacPherson for your advice, i will listen to that podcast and go from there, i definitely want to do everything the right way but i know that experience is the best teacher.