Having a long commute for my day job, I began listening podcasts, youtube videos, and this helped me in ways I could never imagine in both my personal life and work life.- Education: My ongoing personal development was never about making more money but rather having a sense of fulfillment day in and day out.

In fact, I am intrigued with the idea of purchasing a multi family property and creating passive income.I found BP through a friend who showed me the podcast on youtube and have been hooked.

I went in thinking I'd do 50% of the work myself cause I trust my skills with youtube and I'm a quick learner. the other 50% would go to an electrician, plumber, subcontractors for large scale work.  

Perhaps even see what the response time is to potential calls or requests for showings.Do a few drive by's of the property and maybe spend some time walking the neighborhood to see if you have something at the micro level going on (think: loud music shaking houses on the block or constant sirens).

You can find it on YouTube it's called "calculating numbers on a rental property using the four square method"

All the YouTube videos I have seen and threads I've read on here are helpful, but not really helping me.

After reading Rich Dad Poor Dad, I kicked my financial education into gear, taking control of my personal cashflow management for the first time ever, and began to develop a much greater sense of financial purpose beyond 'pay rent / buy stuff'.Towards the end of 2011 I started my first commercial business, a catering company that targeted week or weekend long music festivals in Australia.

I always recommend checking out some podcast and YouTube videos to get a better idea of the process, talking to sellers, etc.Here are a few to check out:Investor Grit podcast (Tom Krol and Cody are awesome)Sean Terry YouTube channel and podcast (podcast isn't updated anymore, but back episodes are great)Also check out Tom Krol's appearances on other podcasts like the Bigger Pockets podcast.https://www.youtube.com/results?

I started kicking the tires on the idea of doing passive income through property investment a few months ago and when pursuing around YouTube I stumbled into BP's videos and found their podcasts.  

Is that the real estate downturn, or the oil downturn, gold downturn, silver, hog bellies or whatever they're trading an hour or so south of me in Chicago  . . . and of course for all of those downturns, you can find the exact opposite predictions from SOMEONE for anything and literally you could spend all of 2017 watching non stop youtube videos, listening to "financial whiz" podcasts and interviews, there's the screaming "I'm bald but refuse to do the shave your whole head trend since I'm too busy screaming about stocks all of the time" stock dork on CNBC or wherever he is (maybe MSNBC-oh wait, they've got the entire on air staff on 24/7 suicide watch since the election results came in at MSNBC) Anyway, point is that you can literally find someone pushing ANY prediction and what is also very troubling is that MANY who push the "downturn" scenarios and ESPECIALLY the "major downturn" or even the incredible # of "global economic collapse is any day now, might even be tomorrow!!"