So instead find 5 people you want to be more like and start to go out for coffee with them and pick their brain.I would also say obviously don't take advice from someone who hasn't done it before, because I find everyone always seems to have advice on something that they have never done but the funny thing is it always happens to turn out negative.Instead listen to the people who have done it and done it successfully and pick their brain and find out the model they used to be successful and if you do that with every successful person you come across then eventually you form your own model for success!

I've always been interested in real estate investing, and while I'm currently focused on building my business and making connections with others in the industry, I hope to eventually turn my passion for real estate into a full-time career.

We live here currently and will eventually rent it out!

When I receive a gift certificate to a store or restaurant that is not of my choosing, it is one more card to try not to lose and to eventually get around to using, or to re-gift. 

I spent a lot of time trying to reconcile the exodus from IL and what I've been seeing in the market and eventually came to understand that while the population in Chicago is dropping the density within the desirable areas is spiking.

Your profile mentions having your kids eventually get involved in real estate.You might want to see, depending on their age and income levels, if they would be suited to be paid some wage for work that they do on your rentals.

Maybe not now, but you will be held accountable.If you are starting a business to run as a real estate firm, with the mindset to eventually hire some employees, and use different strategies to make money, it's best to be incorporated.

I don't know if an ice-cream franchise is a good fit in Alaska or a Wool sweaters is a fit in Hawaii.5) How does franchise X fit with the rest of your tenants (assuming it's a retail strip of some sort) a pizza franchise in a strip mall that already has a pizza place will compete with each other and will eventually cause one of them to lose their business and you to lose the tenantJust some food for thought. 

Not sure if this is the right place, but just wanted to introduce myself.
My name is Christopher "Pez" Lopez, actually most people don't know my real name and only know Pez. I just finished up my second internship wi...

General "I'll help out" doesnt cut it as this eventually falls less and less.