Currently I work as a industrial painter while my wife is going through the process of joining the Navy here in southern Illinois I have about 60k I've saved I'm 24 and have been looking into getting started in real estate investing.

- That is the primary question most people ask in the real estate industry.

Your experience in both real estate and the banking industry gives us great insight on both industries. 

I am really going back on forth on which industry I would like to go into.

Newbie investor/ student of the industry with a lot of real estate knowledge thanks to BP and my real estate licensing course.

Many of us in the industry are working to normalize these structures the world over.

There are many, many wonderful and outstanding people in this world who make our industry fun and worthwhile to be a part of.

Technology is changing and disrupting almost all industries and yet people will always need housing even if robots are doing half of our jobs)3.

--------I get this post was lambasting the fake lenders and wholesalers...But cold emails, PMs etc. are how I built contacts in this industry, and how I built my marketing company from $0.

Where Austin has 5 to 6 industries that account for at least 10%ish of our jobs each, Denver only has 3 or 4 industries that account for 10%ish of their job market.