With the doctor and real estate agent, the average consumer will actually understand what you do and see you as a leader in your industry.

I've been research this field for a few months now and finally took the dive into the industry!

I have been working in the mortgage industry for close to 8 years for one of the nations largest lenders.

Nothing else can possibly touch those two excellent pieces of hardware, especially after 9 pm.Anything from the real estate industry applying such grades would almost certainly end up being a flagrant violation of fair housing laws.

Though experience in the mortgage industry can be considered by the DFS.Aside from a straight sale you could offer the portfolio in whole or in part to other investors with seller financing.  

I have been to many of these and its like anything else sales and business related not everyone can do it.. plain and simple.. failure rate for real estate Is quite highthe other side of the coin are those that have made nice money in other professions or industries and then bought buy and hold for long term investments.Gurus generally are talking about get rich quick.. so its caveat Emptor for sure with these things.But I do know more than a handful of investors who got their start paying the 40k and are as successful as anyone who learned on BP myself included.. but they would have been stars no matter where their education..  

I then continued my education by passing the requirements to become a CPCU "Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter"  There are fewer than 25000 of us in the world, the designation is considered to be the most prestigious in our industry. 

I decided to try something else and move into the auto industry and became a car salesman. 

Its a good gateway to start. when i first started on bigger pockets I too had about 10k saved and just started reading through forums and reading books and found out really fast that 10k won't do you much good in this industry, especially if your in California.

The problem with apartments is that price/sqft metric is not a fair metric to calculate value, so the industry came up with another metric that is more fair... meet "Cap Rate".