It really energizes you about going into the real estate field!

I have 20 years experience working in the IT field, and currently have a JOB doing just that, but some of that time I owned a consulting firm and actually got my real estate license and for 5 years listed REO properties and did some flips along the way. 

I'd say too that gurus, mentors or coaches take an "instructional" view of "let me tell you how this is done" not "how can this best be done" requiring a student to utilize certain principles within a set of rules and then apply that to problem solving.....that's teaching.Before you can get to the thought provoking aspects of learning, there is the foundation that must be understood, that goes to anything in technical and professional fields of business.

Hey @Marcus SvehlakYou can also download the app Meetup then narrow it down to your desired location or field of interest. 

Matter of fact I took it twice, the first time I did it was for continuing education in the real estate field as I thought it might help my investing career (it will not).

Free education in the field, beats paying someone to tell you to read a book and take a test.

I'm thinking about making a move on a couple of properties that are side by side, one is a corner lot the other has a empty field next to it.

personally, i like the real estate market in florida. like any other state, there are good an bad areas in florida, i am sure, so you would have to scope out the areas you would like to invest in and see what they hold for you. take a vacation to an area that you would like to invest in and drive around a bit. if it looks like a bad area, mark it off your map. if it looks good to you, do some research on the area. look for vacant houses. talk to the locals, etc. then, make your move. i would not invest in an area that i am not close to. keep it local. if you get a new job in the same field that you are in now, FHA will consider it the same as if you stayed in your current job because it is a related field. the big plus, the weather. here in western new york, we get about 4 months of the year where you can do decent outside work on a house, then you have to fight the weather for the rest of the year just to get a place finished. and lets face it, you will be rehabbing a house, so why not go to an area where you can work on it nearly year round?

By now I have many years in the field and I have references my customers can use to verify my reputation and of course its much easier for me to operate more  comfortably. 

All,One of my tenant (lets call her Julie) is the power of attorney for her mom's assets /medical treatment.