During my working career as a broker, I focused more on capital appreciation than cash flow.

In my professional career, which is insurance, I've seen and defended many $1M lawsuits, and paid them out.

--I figure we all make mistakes in our investment careers, and we learn from them.

The lender sees 500, a 1000 maybe 5000 at a wholesale banking level of construction loans in a year, an investor doesn't come close to that in their investing career, if a lender has 5 just years in doing these loans, no small time investor has a clue as to analysis they may do nor do they have as much experience in crunching numbers on a project.

I am looking for any advice on how to prepare for such a career as a teenager; whether it be books to read, articles, ways to get more experience, or tips on skills and habits to develop.

We also learned our lesson very early on in our investing career, by giviing tenants breaks and specials it actually was more work for us to try and remember who got what deal, then if they did not come through when they said we would get upset but really it is our fault for bending the rules.When we had 20 properties of our own that might have been ok, but now managing over 400 homes there is no way to keep track of everyones "Special Deal'.

Hey everybody,My name is Hussien Shoubaki and I hope to begin my career in real estate investing.

I'm leaning more towards tax at this point because I think it would serve as more of an asset not only to my own future investment/business strategies, but to other investors' strategies as well.As of right now, I don't want to be an accountant for the rest of my career; however, I know by gaining experience in a firm that works with the real estate industry I'd be able to absorb knowledge about different types of real estate, investment strategies, and their tax implications.I fell in love with real estate investing because of the challenges, risks, rewards, and opportunities it can create.

Not sure exactly what kind of careers there are in the real-estate industry or where I'd want to be working at

I have handled a ton of divorces during my career as a investor and a broker.