When you jumped into this business, did you have a teacher? 

I am a teacher from the Buffalo, NY area who recently found a love of all things real estate.

Military, fire fighters, teachers, etc. 

They have monthly meetings and will enable you to become proficient very quickly-them and Bigger Pockets is all you need.

While this seems like an incredible amount ( and it is) you must understand that after you get so many it is like a snowball effect because your compounding income and able to purchase more which enable you to purchase even more yet and so it goes .

You are likely doing him a favor in the long run by not enabling this childishness and showing him that this is not how adults behave.

I am sure to make the math simple and to be conservative teachers use this 8% number.

He was a goodhigh school teacher and taught my economics class.

I consider myself a follower of a man born and raised in abject poverty, briefly feted as a teacher, and who was finally tortured and condemned to death as a rebel.

Our financial situation enables us to seek for either sellers financing or hard money.