There are 100s of distractions thrown at new agents so before you spend time on an activity, ask yourself if it fits into the 'income producing' bucket.

I could care less about the "tax break" angle as that is your distraction. 

Being in college, you will want as little distraction as possible.

@Frank PatalanoMyself and my goals, distractions like internet, need to work on my mind

It's a financial and time cost, it's a distraction.

Absolutely not.According to Heather and Brandon Turner's book, the fact that they want to put so much money up front means they are trying to distract you from something else they don't want you to see, and hope that offering you enough money will accomplish that.

I then got distracted until I learned about the daily fines.

It is a big distraction for you.

It is easy to get distracted, but where you focus the most attention will get results. 5) It sounds like you want to live a life by design.

I have tried a couple times to get ahold of someone to do this, but I haven't been able to get much traction--I will admit, I quickly get distracted with other things and forget to follow up.Is the right way to go about this just pure persistence, or have others had success buying from large corporations like railroads?