Take full advantage of the community and it'll be worth more than any guru's teaching that's out there.

Now Keller Williams is interesting because they teach you a B-quadrant "build your team" approach but the reality is that the majority of the agent's there have a S-Quadrant Mindset.

Has anyone every heard of Elite Legacy Education real estate ...they teach the Rich Dad Poor Dad  principals. www.EliteLegacyEducation.com?

CrowdStreet Township PE Fund I  Rating 1 (Heck NO)Our group discovered this about the Township founder and brought it to the attention of the CrowdStreet. http://advisorhub.com/finra-teaches-ex-merrill-broker-lesson-high-cost-college/http://brokercheck.finra.org/Individual/1872946

Its a great place to learn and grow from, the people here are very helpful and willing to teach/share. 

BP is a great site and the podcasts are hugely helpful for all kinds of investing questions.I teach economics in La Crosse where I am slowly building a rental portfolio.

You are teaching your tenants very bad habits that some day you and they may ultimately pay for.You are allowing personal feelings to interfere with doing your job and in the eyes of management (the only ones that matter) your assistant could begin to shine.

It's really such a benefit to have someone of your knowledge and experience.I also wanted to comment on the point that I went through 2 catastrophes in the NYC Real Estate Market.2001 - the destruction of World Trade Centers.2007 - 2008 - The Meltdown of the Financial Centers where Ground Zero was Wall Street.These 2 catastrophes did not cause much if any slow down in the wealth building potential of NYC Real Estate for me despite owning several multi-family investments.There are various hedges that a big Metropolis like NYC offers.Detroit, being a one Industry Town (Automotive), follows the same risks that Billy Joel's "Allentown" lyrics speak about when the Steel company closed down.NYC has so many Industries, even when one, such as the Financial Crisis causes a Great Recession, even that did not lay waste the Real Estate that was bought correctly (in otherwords, soundly leveraged with reasonable loan terms and equity cushion and in good locations to protect against loss of rents, etc.)In 2005, I started a program to teach Real Estate because I felt that the Market was getting way over heated when I saw very sophisticated leverage being used by very non-sophisticated people who would not otherwise have qualified for their loans.

While you would certainly learn a lot getting your appraisers license, I think a lot of the other stuff you'd have to deal with my distract from your original goal of focusing on real estate investing.I would look for real estate agent continuing education in your area where you can go in person to classes that teach valuation of properties.

I'm guessing that the average new agent usually doesn't have this experience, so training programs of the larger brokerages may be cookie-cut designed to teach some skills I may already have.