For most people investing in real estate it is a long slow process that takes what you might view as a life time.Many individuals beginning set lofty monetary goals that are not realistic.Your goal should be to...................

Mentors can really change your life, good to hear you take the wisdom!

My favorite book on real estate is "the millionaire real estate investor" by Gary Keller.Eschew consumer and student loan debt as if your life depends on it....because your financial life quite literally does.

vanilla purchase transactions where you aren't exposing the transaction to any reliability risk because it's so simple a dead chihuahua could underwrite it.Just to add confusion to your life, your realtor referring you to someone like me will likely call the local-to-you-me a mortgage broker even though in reality it might be quite rare that the local-to-you-me brokers on REI deals.

I currently live in Arlington but in my past life I also lived in Waco.

(less conflict is better in my opinion, particularly taking into account if you have kids, they are inevitably going to be in your life one way or another pretty much forever).  

Hi Valerie, I am 56 and started in RE 3 years ago after despising it my entire life for some dumb reason.

Excited to start this chapter of our life and learn lots from you guys.

Thank you for the lesson in life that we all need to remember.

Which could change as does life, but for now I'm ready to get started!