With that said, watch Brandon Turner's podcasts.  

I always read/watch your stuff!

I have been thinking about real estate investing for about 2 years now have read a lot of articles and watched a lot of videos.  

Prices vs rents now - Miniature Horses.

Doesn't matter which crackhead turns up at my doorstep with some horse and pony story about why they own it.

I've been looking around the site for a while now and after listening to and watching the webinar from last week I decided I need to take some action if I'm going to get serious about this aspect of my life.My immediate goals are to finish school and land a civil engineering job.

(however not that high...UNLESS...due to the following:When an electric stove or an electric water heater (high electrical users) go on the fritz, it shoots a lot of current into the electrical meters and your bill can be $500 or moreWhen a water main breaks and shoots through the water main meter, your bill can be $4,000.00, (that happened to us)  But this is water and not lights or gas, just using this as an example.Electrical dryers use an awful lot of electricity, and when they go bad, watch out!

Things like breaking a window because their kids were horsing around, I pay for and then subtract from security deposit when the tenant moves out.

Take Joe's advice and hook up with someone close to where you live and basically say I can give you leg work running to the courthouse, painting units, checking on properties etc. in exchange for letting me watch how you do things.Remember each no you get just means your one step closer to getting a yes. 

I too failed in the past but have gotten back on the horse.