Constantly learning new things is a good idea, so if you can fit the degree in with minimal risk, might be worthwhile.

was it worthwhile?

I got my NY state salesperson's license in 2004, and unfortunately found myself in an office with a broker who monopolized all of the action. I spent over $1000 just to get my real estate license and join...

If you do find a business to purchase, it may be worthwhile to take out half on Dec 31 and half on Jan 1.

Water bills can run high when someone leaves a faucet on for an extended period of time.I also think Mike gave a pretty good target price to make this worthwhile.

By happenstance we were looking for our first project and found it on Zillow a few days after it was listed, we’re the type that will run the numbers and if it’s worthwhile or at least looks to be fun we will jump at the opportunity. 

Frankly, I hate the prospect of parting with $125k to do it but I'm asking is this a worthwhile deal nevertheless?

Anybody have any tips or advice about convincing my wonderful significant other that real estate investing is a worthwhile endeavor?

In my observations, a lot of well off people in the area seem to use these investments for tax reductions and not cash flow investments, making the cash flow properties even harder to find as prices are inflated by that demand and they could care less about positive cash flow.If you can boost rents to 1% or more of the purchase price as @Rich O'Neill suggests, you'll find its probably much closer to a worthwhile investment.  

I just got my first verbal offer on a property for 259k. He had a previous offer on the table for 267k but the buyer wanted to use a realtor and taking a 6% commision would bring the actual net price to 251k. He said ...