While I've always had good credit, I found it was far easier to grow my own debt-carrying ability by growing my income than it was to try to build a business line of credit.

Things could grow quickly out of control. and, it's not really 9 units at $80K.

Working for someone else and in the rat race...Growing up I’ve always wanted to be an entrepreneur and the more I’ve learned about real estate through books, classes, and podcast I think real estate is the is the direction I’d like to go with my entrepreneurial mind.

My goal is to at least double my units by the end of this year, and achieve full financial freedom for my family by 2026... though I'm hopeful that as I keep learning and growing, it will snowball even faster than that.

With that we also have a growing city with lots of startup setting up shop here or moving back to Lincoln with the huge startup community.

It could take up to 10 years or more to grow to the point of having significant enough income to replace a paycheck.If you want to flip you could be facing some very lean times without a job to support you or you would need deep pockets.High paying consistent long term employment is the easiest way to successfully invest.

Luckily no agent is ever tied to a brokerage for good, so even if it were to tank, I'll have had the start I needed and learned some things and can make the next best move at that point.In keeping with the informative dialog (I highly respect your opinion and BP input by the way), do you happen to know how much of that debt to grow is financed by agent stock options? 

As I grow my business, I want to leverage this capability more and more.

I am very excited to be a part of this growing family of real estate investors.

Being new to this I hope to meet and connect with different investors in the group that can help me grow in this business :) I am currently familiarizing myself with wholesaling and I am working on building my cash buyers list.