Hello All,I joined Bigger Pockets about a year ago but I had some issues in my personal life that delayed the start of my real estate career.

My full time career has been taking most my time.

Walt,I have not had to deal with the whole UBIT in my SDIRA yet as we paid all cash for our first one, but plan to leverage upcoming ones.

I know the following seems dramatic, but it's my story leading up to this point in my professional career, and I'm hoping it will help those discouraged with bank turn downs to keep striving to reach their goals and begin using OPM.

I know how expensive marketing can get (my career has been television) and I want to make the best decisions a newbie can make so that I don't see burn down sooner than income.Can you recommend anywhere that I can look to see what is working in the LA market right now?

What are some strategies that have been successful for you here beginning a career in sales, approaching and successfully working with investors, and establishing long term win-win relationships?

Hartford, Avon, Canton, Bloomfield, etc.) or by the shore in the New Haven area.Once I do get back to the states, I think I'll probably get a full-time meh-paying job in the nonprofit sector, perhaps working with an NGO or a community-based organization, and eventually get back to school for my Master's in international development, but I really have been looking for some sort of investment opportunity that I can get behind to complement (justify, really) a mediocre salary for a career path that will put me in the sort of jobs that will make me happy with life (but still leave me with bills).

I'd really like to see newbies succeed, but I know you won't as long as you continue to have the fast buck attitude, as long as you keep following schemes and trying to implement systems from some seminar or just try to specialize in putting square pegs in round holes as you might on an assembly line.Success is not doing some deal or doing a deal a month until you hit some wall and get lost then get out of the business, when I say success I mean build a business that can last for your working career or lifetime.

To add to what Steven said for others reading along.The rule is you cannot deduct educational expenses that qualify you for a new job or career, otherwise everyone would deduct their college costs.You can deduct for educational expenses for a field you are already in.

I'm 24 years old, college graduate (Economics), and looking for a career that will best complement REI.