I'm not a fan of traditional education and career path, though I know it's a well worn one.

I've been listing to a man that owns over 4,000 apartment units and I tend to believe what he says and he thinks that apartments is only the good way to go and not to make investments on only other retail, office, or hotel business right now because most retail will continue going down versus on-line shopping with few exceptions and one of them is to acquire retail or office buildings in a high demand area and is in the path of growth and a good economy with diversity, population growth, and job growth and must positive cash flow on day 1.  

@Martin Zawarski - Can you elaborate on how you keep granite from being critical path in your schedules?

Best of luck in finding your own path.

It's pretty straight forward.

I would have to put a minimum of $15k in that unit to get it up to those rents though and so I chose the path that was more safe/sure thing. 

Your path from agent to investor is exactly the goal im striving to achieve.

INVESTING IN REAL ESTATE IS NOT A PATH TO GET OUT OF DEBT.

I have a lot of connections/friendships with doctors and professionals  but I feel until I have a track record I can show people I would rather stay away from that path.  

When I decided that I'd like to get into other parts of the real estate world, it just seemed like a natural path to get my CCB license.