I live in Orange County CA and after toying with multiple ideas about how best to invest my money I believe I have settled on the idea of attempting to acquire rental property with positive cash flow (probably out of the state of California to get more value)I am a elementary school teacher by trade and I am new to the real estate investment business so I hope that my involvement in the BP community will help to guide and direct me as a newbie looking to start my real estate investing career. 

I'm a long time teacher, coach and administrator who would like to become involved in real estate investing.

My wife’s about to graduate and has accepted a job as a teacher, which is something she does want to do.

Jacob - As a former teacher, I noted that most of my graduating high-school students had no financial acuity.

I thank my economics teacher for getting me into investing.I know little about stocks and real estate and I want to learn more.

If you are a public servant (EMT, nurse, teacher or work at a school, work at a non-profit organization, military, police) then you can get your loans paid off in 10 years through the Public Service Loan forgiveness program.

A 10% market vacancy may be statistically correct but if you own an eight unit project and turn one unit a month, your turnover vacancy is 12.5% before even talking about market vacancy or tenant default.Go forth and conquer.. experience is life best teacher

Rick, if you would like a mentor/teacher/or somebody to ask questions to in the SA area let me know.

When you were about to learn something new, you got a textbook, some lessons from a teacher, and then you had to go out and do homework. 

My wife and i are taking a year long Real Estate Investment class locally and my teacher swears by private lenders.