https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/8843/52438-wan...You can get a real estate or construction management degree, then get hired by the big players, make a lot of money from them, and then start on your own.

or unwritten rules between the bigger players not to run the bids up.

I am glad that you inspire other to be big players in BP too.

Move there and learn, get to know who the players are, and understand that area inside and out.

How utterly amusing.Like any other business, REI is full of some of the smartest, competitive, well-connected and well-financed players in existence, who eat sleep and dream REI.You might just as easily 'dabble' in day trading, horse racing, Texas Hold-em or mixed martial arts.

Hello Adam,I'm in Southern Oregon, but the process should be about the same with different players.

But I know people who have done or are doing all of the major players there, Blanc, Sumrock, Fairless, Jake & Gino, all of the people I personally know who have done those courses are now being GPs in their own deals.

I however bought a 2013 Ford Fiesta in 2013. it was like $13K brand new, but its manual transmission, manual windows, no CD player, no alarm, no automatic locks etc.

As a hockey analogy "A good player goes where the puck is while a great player goes where the puck will be."  

Even the NFL makes their Rookies take one due to the amount of players that have gone bankrupt after their football career.