In addition to the real estate education on here, I look forward to building future business and personal relationships on BiggerPockets.  

Since 1996 my passion for selling homes and educating people about homeownership and/or real estate investing hasn’t changed.

Gary,Welcome you will like it here,I have met some great connections and the education is fabulous.Have fun

I'm an educator & my hubby is a filmmaker. 

and I consider them as credit hours towards my Real Estate education!

Both are available in the education drop down on this sight.  

I'm in need of some unbiased market research data that I can use to make educated recommendations to my primary client as to which market in the mid-west they should look towards investing in the multi-family sector.

utm_source=search&utm_medium=internal&utm_campaign=booksSimply, bone up on the areas that you need to expand knowledge in such as, Forums, Marketplace, Learn, Network, Analyze and Resources.Continue to feast on the Podcasts, #askbp Podcasts, blogs and webinars Lastly, this site thrives on interactions and as such we encourage two way exchanges and look forward to educational and thought provoking ideas relevant to REI.

check this link out: https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/04/1...it is a post regarding recommended good reads and don't forget to look at the comments as some users added some other great reads.As for the gurus, yes, do not spend too much money on them but there are definitely some good ones, Im not against education, just don't overspend nor over do it.

We are dealing with a lower class community where high school is the absolute highest level of education and there is little to no population growth.