My goal is to educate myself enough to achieve this goal.

Me personally, I think the education you are going to receive is going to be worth far more then squabling over how many hours a week you have to work.  

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Getting educated would be the best way to start.

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It just seems to be the best education for myself. 

I am going to keep at my education and read read read.

My husband and I have been studying, talking and dreaming about real estate so quite some time and have decided to come to Bigger Pockets for more education and possibly some networking prospects.

I would agree that most of the CTREIA events are focused more on the sales pitch of the speaker, however they do run other events that are more education focused.