I excel in establishing working partnerships, hiring, coaching/developing and managing team of sales professionals. 

You will also learn the players in your area who may also be willing to coach/mentor you.

Ned used the occasion as an opportunity to do a coaching session for our local RE Meetup Group (BWI Meetup).Here's the video:https://www.dropbox.com/s/vkwa56y3fvhah3v/jscott_t...On top of that, we have at least one BP member who will be helping us with the trash out and may have another BP member who will be helping us wholesale it once it's cleaned out.

Have also considered at some point, having our family purchase a property that we use as a second home, with a rental unit (garden apartment, coach house, etc,) to defray cost of the property.

Mentors, coaching, etc.; Just looking for some good insight and opportunities to get my feet wet. 

@DG HendersonWell the lease option model needs a component of mortgage and credit counseling by YOU and or Your Credit Counselling Company to be more successful in getting families mortgages than a small percentage of your rent to own tenant buyers.It is true that only a small percentage will buy if left to their own planning for a mortgage.See a credit improvement coach like Blair WarnerBuild the cost of that service into your program (my tenant buyers really want to own)It is a "one on one service" to get NEW marks on the bureau and to look seriously as to their DTI to get a FHA mortgage.See these articles.And getting an ADDITIONAL part time job for 10 hours a week to be a home owner is not out of the question. :)Craigslist Ad:ARE YOU WILLING TO DO WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A HOME OWNER?  

I am a high school counselor/basketball coach.

Hey Andrew,A barter of your contractor's skill in exchange for investor's coaching and a profit split on a few(say 5) JV deals sounds reasonable.

-BSEE from UT-Austin-MBA from TCU (Lockheed Martin paid for it....every cent)-2 years training in real estate from specialized niche training program (worth every cent)-10 years in corporate world (transportation industry, designed fighter pilots control systems, designed automated test equipment, tested computer software)-10 years of real estate experience now (SFRs, multi-family, fix/flip, new construction, small development, ran coaching program for almost 2 years)Finance coursework has proved very useful as has the MBA training.

Also, Kiyosaki was using it as a tool to drive people towards his coaching programs so of course he made the real estate deals appear like the only ways to get out of the rat race, when stocks aren't bad investments themselves.