If you can find a local investor that you can trade your skills/time/value for his knowledge, you'll learn more than you ever could by going to school or reading books.Secondly: BiggerPockets is the absolute best resource online.

I'll be blunt - you're lack of knowledge and insistence on being right is FRIGHTENING.

I am in the "learning" phase of real estate investing and look forward to gaining knowledge and making my first deal in 2013.

If you're a successful wholesaler and want to learn about rehabbing, find a successful rehabber and offer to bring him a few deals in return for teaching you how to rehab.I've done #1 above for several new investors, and would always consider doing #2 if someone who could provide some value in return.That said, there's absolutely nothing wrong with paying for coaching under the right circumstances (the coach is knowledgeable, has real-world experience and is reasonable in his fees) -- but don't assume that you *have* to pay to learn this business from someone successful.

There is a huge number of extraordinarily generous people here who have experience and who are happy to share their knowledge.

Joshua Dorkin,Brandon Turner, (and a bunch of others I don't know yet...)I have never been a member of a community that is so helpful, so fast, and so knowledgeable.

Considering it as part of my strategy but don't have enough knowledge yet to make that determination.

:)I have noticed changes of several, not just in knowledge but in attitude and thier approach to the business.

A knowledgeable tenant could end up being in your unit for a couple of months with only a weeks rent if you let them move in with only a partial month's rent.

Just one thing, get some basic RE knowledge in your area, like a class for real estate agents, then look at options.