Your job is to present a sound alternative way for them to achieve that goal.

As Maslow suggests, we must continue to move forward, one step at a time, in order to achieve all our potential.

You'll find this site the perfect place to achieve the reasons mentioned as to, why you joined.What type of properties do you focus on for investing?

By documenting my criteria and my plan, it has helped keep me from straying from my original plan and keeps me on-track to achieve my goals. 3) To get financing.

Josh:I have corrected my profile and now shows my name and location.Yes, I am here to get advice and help on how to achieve this goal, and make this transition.I bought this upper fixer REO in Atlanta about a year ago for $18K.

There's a lot of great people, information and resources here that can help you achieve your real estate goals!!

He also has achieved financial independence, and if there's anything I learned - instead of focusing on why you can't do something, focus on figuring out how can you.Thank you all so much!!!

If we are to judge an individuals business intelligence by his or her losses prior to success then no one is worthy of any achievement, not Robert Kiyosaki, not Donald Trump, not Milton Hershey, not Steve Jobs, not Joseph Kennedy, nor anyone of any business success.

You sit there for about 8 hours a day, following rote learning techniques that allow you to replicate your productivity over and over, and following the instructions of the person in charge while being discouraged from challenging the basic principles of the system.Anyone who can achieve those goals makes an excellent employee in a typical retail or manufacturing workplace...but not a very good innovator...I've run organizations focused on "technology innovation" for a couple of the largest tech companies in the world, so I know the skills, approaches and personalities it takes to be successful at innovation.

Even some of the best deals I've calculated with fourplexes will barely yield $50 - $300 a month profit - not too shabby but the numbers look a lot better when you start looking at 10 plus units. depending on what you are trying to achieve - buy and hold may be better deal for now if you can only get an SFR - it is a little difficult i think to unload a flipper right now unless you can find a really cheap fixer upper or know how to work the foreclosure market.