"gig" economy, technology, etc), cost of living especially housing, etc, so it will be interesting to see how those changes manifest themselves the next time the economy and markets are stress tested. 

Not to say each brokerage doesn’t have its own culture but do you want to be the newest agent in a building full of agents who all focus on investors or do you want to be the agent doing something  mostly different from the rest by getting your BiggerPockets PhD and being the innovator of your brokerage.All that aside, check out meet ups and meet people in your area that are doing what you want to do.

I work in the field of Information Technology and photography but I hope to become a full-time Real Estate Investor within the next year.

It was amazing to see the history behind the company and how far we have come in technology.

You can find China already using some interesting technology to lay bricks.

So far, looks like you guys are pretty innovative!

Pete with Innovative Basement Solutions is very knowledgeable when it comes to foundations and foundation repairs 

That is not the reason they are not paying unless they are very elderly and not great with technology.

@Adam Soyak and Account Closed is your guy.Or use the modern technology and work with any of the tax accountants on this forum remotely.

I grew up in the area (Maryland) and attended school in state before moving up to NYC and then SF for work in professional services (consulting, strategy) and technology.